Would you go back in time to fight in WWII, if you knew you couldn't die?

[dthvirus]

Everyone who said yes either did not read the OP's post or do not understand the nature of warfare. I'm betting on the latter.

 

[Commissar Sae]

No, oh dear god no. I like reading about WWII and trying to understand why things went the way they did but I would never want to be on the frontlines. I've read enough first hand documents that show how horrifying that war really was.

Edit: Maybe if the deal was permanent immortality for the cost of going back. Then I could pull an eternal warrior and be an avatar of battle or something. Plus intimately knowing the horrors of war would pretty much make me a better shadow lord as I pulled the strings behind government, since I'd pretty much not want to put anyone else through that hell.

 

[llew]

yes i would for many reason, im a homicidal maniac, im invincible so why not? and if i am invincible i can just walk up to the german war machine, walk straight past it and kick hitler in the balls before he gets out of his stunned look then shoot him in the face

 

[llew]

Everyone who said yes either did not read the OP's post or do not understand the nature of warfare. I'm betting on the latter.

i did both and your missing the point, your invincible and you dont know any of the people there so by killin the german soldiers in your immortal presence no harm comes to your side or you could quite simply kill hitler before he can do fuck all, and also most of the people who said yes are probably as mentally deranged as me

 

[dthvirus]

Everyone who said yes either did not read the OP's post or do not understand the nature of warfare. I'm betting on the latter.

i did both and your missing the point, your invincible and you dont know any of the people there so by killin the german soldiers in your immortal presence no harm comes to your side or you could quite simply kill hitler before he can do fuck all, and also most of the people who said yes are probably as mentally deranged as me

Respectfully, I don't think you grasp either.

1.) You're just unable to die. You are most certainly not invulnerable. You can be shot, you will bleed, you will feel your life pour out of you slowly, and you will feel every moment of it. You will faint from blood loss, and then, as the OP says, you'll inexplicably wake up perfectly fine to the amazement of 20th century medicine. All the enemy needs to do is handcuff you to a tree and shoot you for fun every once in a while after they inevitably 'kill' you the first time. Assuming you can't faint, I say, by the gods, you'll be wishing for death with what's left of your brains.

2.) By 1939, the war has already started, Hiter has already done, as you say "fuck all".

EDIT: Typos. And I mixed up 'invincible' and 'invulnerable'. Herp derp.

 

[Bloodstain]

Of course not. Why would I? Seriously, one more soldier wouldn't change anything.

All that suffering for nothing? No thanks. I fear pain more than death.

Besides, messing with time is never a good idea.

yes i would for many reason, im a homicidal maniac, im invincible so why not? and if i am invincible i can just walk up to the german war machine, walk straight past it and kick hitler in the balls before he gets out of his stunned look then shoot him in the face

Killing Hitler wouldn't have changed ANYTHING. There would just be a new (and maybe way worse) nazi leader, probably Joseph Goebbels. You can't stop something big like this just by killing one person.

 

[Liberaliter]

No, it would be horrific. I couldn't deal with it to be honest and I doubt many people here saying they would do it could either.

 

[martin's a madman]

Yes, Yes I would.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Yes, Yes I would.

Well I guess Martin, some would call you a madman.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[martin's a madman]

Yes, Yes I would.

Well I guess Martin, some would call you a madman.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Har har har,
Well played sir, well played.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

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Yeah I understand that that's part of their culture. But under no circumstances does that extend as far as to accommodate the rape and killings the soldiers carried out.

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your both wrong.

japanese doctors were evil

Unit 731, a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army, undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937) and World War II.

Prisoners of war were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia.
Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants.
Vivisections were also performed on pregnant women, sometimes impregnated by doctors, and the fetus removed.
Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting.
Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss.
Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines.
Parts of the brain, lungs, liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners.
In 2007, Doctor Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that, "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 persons, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections throughout mainland China.

Yeah I'm familiar with these cases, but I don't think that just because it was the doctors carrying out the atrocities that it absolves the soldiers of delivering the prisoners to them, knowing full well what would happen to them (unlike in the case of German soldiers and the SS) as well as all the many other cases of horrible injustices carried out by the Japanese forces, sometimes under orders from superiors, sometimes not.

 

[Shapsters]

Fuck no, I would have no choice but to grow close to my squadmates and thus have my world shattered when my new brothers in arms are killed around me. I couldn't handle the emotional scarring.

 

[Tsunimo]

yes, i would

 

[Aesir23]

Yes. Not for any other reason than the fact that I'd simply want to help out the Allies. Yeah, the experience of war itself would be incredibly harsh and would probably have a lot of impact on me psychologically. But I think I'd risk it just for the chance to help.

As for which army I'd choose. Either Canadian, British or American, simply because I have family members who have served in those armies during WWII and so I feel a bit more attached to them.

 

[Quaxar]

I'm immortal? Hell yes, enlist me NOW!
I could just pick up a flamethrower, march around the battlefield and roast enemies... sounds like fun to me.
But I guess I'd have to change sides or become some sort of insurgent since both my parent's parents are Austrian and therefore more or less part of the Third Reich.

 

[Mr. Mortiss]

Yes, I'd go. It's not like I'd have anything to lose, and I'd have a good chance of meeting my grandfather when he was flying a bomber for the allies.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Hope so, but if I couldn't be killed and this was and option, i'd hunt down a few individuals whose deaths could end the war and not millions.

I agree, I'd go for the tarantino approach, but the OP did say on the front.

I would, I fight alongsto make the the German Army crumble faster, I'd fight with the Red Army and destroy the germans after their attempt with operation Barbarossa