The main role of the RPA was to oversee the production and maintenance of propaganda regarding the ethnic consciousness of the Nordic Aryan master race.[3] This was termed "enlightenment" rather than "propaganda" by the Nazi authorities, because it was "not a call for immediate action but a long-term change in attitude".[4] Dr. Gross did not want people thinking of themselves as individuals but rather as "single links in the great chain of life".[4]