According to the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers, the government's sole purpose is to protect the rights and interests of its population. We can see that during Hitler’s reign over Germany he was manipulating the people by giving them empty promises in order to come to power. Hermann Göering, a former NSDAP/Nazi Party leader, later described his thought process during the time. “I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.” (Nazi Germany). His experience is a demonstration of how many people perceived the ideas of the Nazi party to be in their best interest and regarded it as a revolutionary cause. Hitler was also successful in implanting thoughts and ideas into the German society by using propaganda. By federally spreading anti-Semitic books and cartoons as a norm on to the youth of the previous generation was how virtually all public discriminatory acts against Jewish citizens became accepted and not criticized. In the society of today, in order to prevent this type of manipulation from reoccurring, young people must truly ask themselves if they think the Government is in the interest of respecting their views or fabricating them. They must be able to question all that they encounter and reassure that it is not being composed by a mind similar to the Reich Minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. He who once said “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” (Nazi
According to the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers, the government's sole purpose is to protect the rights and interests of its population. We can see that during Hitler’s reign over Germany he was manipulating the people by giving them empty promises in order to come to power. Hermann Göering, a former NSDAP/Nazi Party leader, later described his thought process during the time. “I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.” (Nazi Germany). His experience is a demonstration of how many people perceived the ideas of the Nazi party to be in their best interest and regarded it as a revolutionary cause. Hitler was also successful in implanting thoughts and ideas into the German society by using propaganda. By federally spreading anti-Semitic books and cartoons as a norm on to the youth of the previous generation was how virtually all public discriminatory acts against Jewish citizens became accepted and not criticized. In the society of today, in order to prevent this type of manipulation from reoccurring, young people must truly ask themselves if they think the Government is in the interest of respecting their views or fabricating them. They must be able to question all that they encounter and reassure that it is not being composed by a mind similar to the Reich Minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. He who once said “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” (Nazi