Question

Goebbels says he favors "rule by the best." Do you think he clearly defines what he means by "the best"? Why or why not? Cite specific details from the text to support your answern
2. is Goebbel's real passion here to defend the idea of "rule by the best" or to condemn democracy? cite specific examples of his language and rhetoric to support your answer. ​

Answer 1

The correct answers to these open questions are the following.

-Goebbels says he favors "rule by the best." Do you think he clearly defines what he means by "the best"?

I think that Goebbels does not clearly define his term, but the reader can understand that the strong dictators are the ones that are best suited to rule the people.  

I can cite a specific detail from the text to support my answer. It would be the paragraph that says "A minority, if it includes the best, will turn the German fate."

-I think Goebbel's real passion here is to defend the idea of "rule by the best." However, he takes his chances to critique democracy.

A specific example of his language and rhetoric would be this: "The people have the choice to live under the open dictatorship of the courageous or to die under the hypocritical democracy of cowards."

Joseph Goebbels was the ideologist during Adolph Hitlers' leadership. He was the master of propaganda that helped Hitler to become the kind of leader he was, conveying the proper propaganda to convince the German people.