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.