Uh, yeah, Jerry Bergman is a phony whose writings (and finger pointing) on issues of racism and discrimination are about as dependable as those of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
He claims...
Leading Nazis, and early 1900 influential German biologists, revealed in their writings that Darwin’s theory and publications had a major influence upon Nazi race policies.
But if you actually read Hitler and other leading Nazis you find that, although they did indeed appeal at times to (a naive and superficial version of) Darwinism, it was to argue for their doctrines of militarism.
Nazi racism was actually based not on scientific doctrines but on (a mystical version of) creationism. Read Alfred Rosenberg's The Myth of the Twentieth Century. Rosenberg, the Nazis' most important philosopher of race, asserts that each race is created with a unique "soul," giving each race specific tendencies, attributes and geniuses. (The genius of the Aryan race was supposedly conquest and enslavement of lesser races.) Hitler echoes these views in Mein Kampf and in his speeches.
The Nazi selective breeding ideas Bergman refers to were NOT based on any Darwinian scheme for evolving or improving the race. Rather their purpose was to RESTORE the lost "purity" of the "blood" which carried the racial "soul". None of this nonsense has a damn thing to do with Darwin.
Again, Darwin was appealed to in a cartoonish way in arguing for militarism, in that the brutality of warfare would supposedly "select" the dominate races. But still this was secondary to awaking the "natural" tendency of the Aryan "blood" toward the conquest and rule of lesser races, a tendency installed therein by the Creator.
EVOLUTIONARY ETHICS, EUGENICS, AND RACISM IN GERMANY
http://www.csustan.edu/History/Faculty/Weikart/FromDarwintoHitler.htm
"Richard Weikart's outstanding book shows in sober and convincing detail how Darwinist thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society by the time of the First World War, in which the supposed good of the race was applied as the sole criterion of public policy and 'racial hygiene'. Without over-simplifying the lines that connected this body of thought to Hitler, he demonstrates with chilling clarity how policies such as infanticide, assisted suicide, marriage prohibitions and much else were being proposed for those considered racially or eugenically inferior by a variety of Darwinist writers and scientists, providing Hitler and the Nazis with a scientific justification for the policies they pursued once they came to power."
-- Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and author of The Coming of the Third Reich