The Nazi Germany Pursuit Of Happiness After World War II

Happiness The Nazi Germany pursuit of happiness changed throughout the war. As the war changed so did the thoughts behind what Nazi Germany wanted in the end. They didn’t expect to lose the war so why change what the end result is? At the start of WWII Nazi Germany wanted to be the power house in the world. They wanted revenge from WWI when they got defeated and had to pay for the war. Germany was not happy so they needed a man to make them happy again, Adolf Hitler. At the start of the war Germany wanted Epicureanism happiness. They was just focused on getting the people happy and not worrying about the other countries they was hurting. As stated in “Education after Auschwitz,” “The pressure exerted by the prevailing universal upon everything particular, upon the individual people and the individual institutions, has a tendency to destroy the particular and the individual together with their power of resistance.” This meaning that since Germany got destroyed in WWI and was the laughing country that they had revenge they need to settle by destroying other countries
The pursuit of happiness switched from Epicureanism happiness, to more along the lines of Literary Hedonism. They wanted to take other peoples riches and make them theirs. The more riches and fame they got the happier they would be right? Towards the end of the war the pursuit of happiness changed one final time back to Epicureanism happiness. Hitler wanted to make a stand and not let down. A quote form the article reads “People also forfeit those qualities by virtue of which they are able to pit themselves against what at some moment might lure them again to commit atrocity.” This quote reflected on me that Hitler and other high ranked officers was giving out orders to protect themselves. They gas more people and also tried one last attack which is known as “The Battle of the Bulge.” Once they failed happiness was no more for