In WWI who do you believe had the most dangerous job, women in factories that could get bombed or men in trenches (that could get bombed too)?

[Milonaa]

Women in weapon factories

Men in trenches

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+1 y

Just so you know, in my country, 8000 civillian (men, women and children) were killed during WWI while 1 millions soldiers were killed.

[Guy13]

Men got shot moving up the shore and bombed. Not sure where you are learning your history. You and all the girls are welcomed to match Afghanistan, play tag with the Russian subs etc. No one in America factories were getting bombed in that time period. Pearl Harbor was pacific theatre and Japan was atom bombed.

[Milonaa]

I was just checking if people there were more intelligent than on twitter. A feminist claimed that women were more put at risk than men and people seemed to agree.

[Guy13]

Gotcha…people simply want their opinions and worldview supported or they cry and whine. I try to avoid those types 😎

[OddBeMe]

I think you mean WW2. Not many if any factories were bombed in WW1. Planes were just for recon mostly until somebody later in the war invented a machine gun that could fire through the propellers. That seems crazy to me but if its timed right it's obvi doable...

Now WW2, they had bombers that cratered entire cities, not to mention the nukes at the end. So women in factories were definitely more in danger then.

[FooBar444]

Probably not nearly as much as soldiers on the front.

[DryGermanGuy]

No, that’s incorrect, there were bombers used for air raids, also against civilian targets. But to a much smaller scale compared to WWII.
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotha_G.IV

[Milonaa]

Well according to wikipedia, taking ALL civilian causalities (men, women, children and genocide victims), in Germany there was 1.5 to 3 Millions victims and between 4 and 5 millions soldier deaths. Also I still think soldiers were more likely to be bombed in addition to being shot at or getting hit by other kinds of death machines.

[DryGermanGuy]

I don't know which Wikipedia you are using, according to WIKI EN ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties ) Germany had ~2 million total military fatalities, only 720 (!!!) civilian fatalities and up to ~700.000 additional civilian fatalities through diseases and malnutrition. So a) your numbers are completely wrong and b) you still have shown no example of the aerial bombing of civilian factories?

[OddBeMe]

Germany was quite harsh and considered a military dictatorship even in WW1. They used slave labor and kept cutting rations for workers because of the British Blockade.

[DryGermanGuy]

? Germany was a monarchy during WW 1 and not a military dictatorship with 90% of its military occupying on foreign ground. And where did you get the part about slave labor? Sources, please?

[OddBeMe]

@DryGermanGuy
www.americanheritage.com/belgians-deported-slave-labor-camps
encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/.../forced_labour
www.historyhit.com/.../

But I didn't know about the Gotha bomber, so thank you.

[purplepoppy]

The biggest danger to factory workers was accidents within the factory rather than attack. There is an argument that lack of health and safety in those days and the high accident and death rate in factories conditioned people's minds to death so much they didn't fear going to war

[Jennz6]

Men in trenches and on the battlefield. Women in factories were sometimes warned by alarms and could go to the shelter. Scary for both I’m sure.

[DryGermanGuy]

What factories did get bombed in World War ONE and what were the actual casualties? The number and intensity of air raids was ridiculous compared to World War TWO (which I strongly suspect you confused it with).

[Milonaa]

My country lost the WWII in 5 weeks so not much bombing lol.

[Tyrael]

Undoubtedly the men. They didn't just sit in trenches unfortunately, they often has to march straight into enemy guns trying to take their trenches. That war cost the lives of millions and the vast majority of them were men.

[slatyb]

Aerial warfare was just getting started in WWI. Planes could not carry heavy ordnance. In WWII aerial bombardment was a huge part of the war. The RAF infamously bombed some German cities to rubble.

[EnglishEuropean]

So did the USAAF and Luftwaffe.

[EnglishEuropean]

Well the Luftwaffe didn't bomb German cities but they certainly bombed the crap out of London, Bristol and Coventry.

[slatyb]

@EnglishEuropean Not to the extent that the RAF carpet bombed civilian areas of Hamburg and Dresden. The USAAF was more selective.

[NamerOfStars]

The women in factories didn't face bullets or poison gas or the business ends of flamethrowers.

[Anonymous]

Men in trenches didn’t just get bonded, they got shot at, often after being sent to almost certain death over the top of the trench to be mowed down by machine gun fire.

[Twalli]

The likelihood of death was higher for men, especially when the Americans brough over the Spanish Flu.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who votes A is completely ignorant about the facts.

[Anonymous]

Men I would guess.

[maximumpower]

The men OUTSIDE of the trenches.

[Anonymous]

Men.

[Opinion Owner]

😂😂😂😂😂 does anyone seriously believe that women had some dangerous job?

[jimmy2]

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