to come. “On March 13, the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment was founded under the direction of Dr.Josef Goebbels”(Rhodes 11). “Hitler met [Goebbels] in 1926 and quickly appreciating his oratorical power of persuasion, made him head the Party Propaganda department “(Rhodes 13). Goebbels knew exactly how to influence a crowd. He knew what made the masses tick. He also had a great sense for what the German people were looking for in a leader, and so he showed them just that with Hitler through Ghassemi 2 Propaganda. “[He] was to become one of history’s greatest political propagandists”(Rhodes 12). Hitler and Goebbels knew that Propaganda would work best with those less educated. Educated individuals question and interrogate what they hear. Most will not just follow the crowd or follow some dictator, because they know better. It is for that reason that Hitler did not like the intellectuals. He knew they might someday come in his way. Hitler worked around the fact that “propaganda consists in attracting the crowd, and not in educating those who are already educated”(Rhodes12). Early on in their quest to rule the world, Hitler and Goebbels realized that “propaganda must be addressed to the emotions and not to the intelligence”(Rhodes 12). So the Nazi Party terrorized professors and known savants out of the country before they began brainwashing the rest of the population. “Most writers and dramatists of any merit had left the country or were proscribed when the Nazis came to power: men like Thomas Mann, Remarque, Zweig, Reinhardt, Toller, Brecht, Franz Werfel”(Rhodes 29). Nazi writer Schunzel wrote, “In this land we do not read books. We swim, we wrestle, we lift weights”(Rhodes 29). The Nazis did not want people to think for themselves. They wanted everyone to use their physical skills instead of their mental skills. Aside from knowing that propaganda does not work with the intellectuals, Goebbels also knew that the people want an all around good leader. “The modern dictator must be at once a superman and a man of the people, remote yet accessible, wise yet simple, lonely on his olympian height, yet ready to mix with the crowd”(Rhodes 13). He has to be everything at once so that the people believe that their leader is some kind of a hero. Goebbels believed that “the masses love a commander”(Rhodes 12). He did everything he could to make Hitler look fierce yet reasonable at the same time. Ghassemi 3 Goebbels used propaganda to trick the people into believing whatever he wanted them to believe, therefore he did not believe that the German population was too intelligent. It was his assumption that the people were not very smart because they were able to be swayed so easily. “Although he said that in the future the man who controlled the masses would control the State, he made no attempt to hide his contempt for the masses”(Winkler 32). Goebbels knew that if the same message was portrayed enough repeatedly to the people, then they would have no choice but to believe it. He once said that “nothing is easier than leading the people on a leash. I just hold up a dazzling campaign poster and they jump through it”(Rhodes 10). Goebbels had no doubt in his mind that within no time, the German people would be eating out of the Nazi Party’s hand because they would have been fed so much propaganda. Hitler’s Party started their propaganda schemes several years before World War Two even started because they needed that much time to slowly control the population. Half a decade before t

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