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To: Olympiad Fisherman
"The weak inferior humans can view this as cruel, but…if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development or organic living beings would be unthinkable. Therefore, here too, the struggle among themselves arise less from inner aversion than from hunger and love. In both cases, Nature looks on calmly, with satisfaction…In the struggle for daily bread all those who are weak and sickly or less determined succumb, while the struggle ofthemales for the females grants the right or opportunity to propagate only to the healthiest. And struggle is always a means for improving a species health and power of resistance and, therefore, a cause of its higher development. (Adoph Hitler Mein Kamph, p. 285.

"If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in sun cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

But such a preservation goes hand-in-hand with the inexorable law that it is the strongest and the best who must triumph and that they have the right to endure. He who would live must fight. He who does not fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist." (Adoph Hitler, Mein Kamph, 4th printing {London: Hurst & Blackett, 1939}, pp. 230-240, 242)

A central goal of Hitler and his government was the development and implementation of eugenics to produce a superior race, often called Aryan, Teutonic or Nordic race. The goal w as to prevent "inferior races" from mixing with those judged superior in order to prevent contamination of the human gene pool. In formulating these racial ideas Hitler relied heavily on Darwinism, especially the elaboration by Darwins's German disciples such as Fritz Lenz and Ernst Haeckel. The superior race belief was based on the theory of racial inequality within each species, a major presupposition and requirement of Darwins original "survival of the fittest" theory. This culminated in what the Germans call the Final Solution to the Jews and Poles, who were judged inferior. (Jerry Bergman, "Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview", pp. 37-38

13 posted on 11/15/2013 11:16:29 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: Texas Songwriter
Hitler relied heavily on Darwinism, especially the elaboration by Darwins's German disciples such as Fritz Lenz and Ernst Haeckel. The superior race belief was based on the theory of racial inequality within each species, a major presupposition and requirement of Darwins original "survival of the fittest" theory.

Then, he relied on a warped understanding of evolution. (Surprise! Hitler's views were warped, who knew?). See my post below yours. Evolution actually implies that those species with greater genetic diversity are more likely to survive long-term than those lacking genetic diversity. Hitler certainly was not in favor of increasing the diversity of the human gene pool, was he?

15 posted on 11/15/2013 11:32:20 AM PST by stremba
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To: Texas Songwriter
Hitler relied heavily on Darwinism, especially the elaboration by Darwins's German disciples such as Fritz Lenz and Ernst Haeckel. The superior race belief was based on the theory of racial inequality within each species, a major presupposition and requirement of Darwins original "survival of the fittest" theory. How is Hitler misinterpreting Darwin any more a condemnation of his theory than slavers misinterpreting scripture to support their evil trade a condemnation of the Bible?
16 posted on 11/15/2013 11:54:32 AM PST by Natufian (t)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Indeed.


21 posted on 11/15/2013 12:33:32 PM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
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