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Does The Struggle Of Pain In Junger's Essay On Pain

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Adolf Hitler envisioned a society in which every man, woman, and child would be willing to sacrifice themselves in order to better their nation and people as a whole. Hitler had a vision of the unification of Germany and its citizens, where each person would struggle and adapt in order to reach their goal of world dominance. Ernst Junger in his essay, “On Pain”, relates the struggle of pain with neutrality by stating that pain is a test that defines a person’s basic values in life. Junger addresses the fact that warfare can change a man and force him to overcome one’s pain with the will to survive. “There are apparently attitudes that enable man to become detached from the realms of life where pain reigns as absolute master. This detachment …show more content…

Hitler stated that the stronger must not mate with the weaker and will therefore keep the Aryan race as pure as possible. This signifies the self-sacrifice that the German people are making by purifying their own race. “It was not by mere chance that the first forms of civilization arose where there were Aryans who came into contact with inferior races, subjugated them and forced them to obey his command. The members of the inferior race became the first mechanical tools in the service of a growing civilization.” (Hitler, V.1, Ch. 11) Hitler saw the lower races as a way to further the Aryan movement by means of conquering the weak. “By imposing on them a useful, though hard, manner of employing their powers he not only spared the lives of those whom he had conquered, but probably made their lives easier than these had been in the former state of so-called ‘freedom’. The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature.” (Hitler, V.1, Ch. 11) Moreover, Aryans will begin to build a civilization that depends entirely on the survival of the Aryan race and dominance over the inferior. Hitler stated that once a civilization was created, the preservation of such a society depends on the willingness of its citizens to forgo their immediate interests. Only once the Aryan sacrifices his or her own self interests for the betterment of the nation, can society as a whole begin to organize and develop more extensive

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