Tsk, here I thought that it was the Treaty of Versailles (among other things) that brought about the rise of Hitler. Nope, it was the GREENS. Go figure.
The Nazis believed themselves to be in biological communion with the Social Darwinian laws of nature, (in contrast to the rest of the west who were capitalistic and humanistic & in contrast to the east who were communistic and humanistic) and wrapped their socialism around this ‘scientific’ racism with ecological undercurrents bubbling from underneath. In fact, the very father of German Social Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, coined the term ecology in 1866. This whole discussion is in the book ...