1.What did the phrase “national community” mean to the Nazis? How did their idea of the German national community relate to their view of Germany’s universe of obligation? 2. How does this pamphlet define what it means to be German? What do you think Goebbels meant by the phrase “national community”? What might he have meant by “honestly creative German”?
3. What did National Socialism offer to these “honestly creative” Germans? What did it ask of them?
4. Why do you think this pamphlet was repeatedly reprinted? Why would a government want to encourage the values expressed in the pamphlet?
5. How does this pamphlet define the relationship between the individual and society?