[Dimensio]

From what (little) I know about Hitler, anyway, he got his racial theories from people that were contemporaries of, or even slightly before, Darwin. H.S. Chamberlain and the Frenchman Gobineau, for two examples. He took their theories of the superiority of the Aryan and the inferiority of the Semite and added the violent German nationalism he felt as an Austrian youth, then mixed it all together while he was a bum in Vienna before World War I.

When did Darwin claim that "Aryans" were superior to "Semites"?

[Moose4]

"When did Darwin claim that 'Aryans' were superior to 'Semites'?"

I never said he did. You're twisting my words. Chamberlain and Gobineau were Aryan supremacists (well, Teutonic supremacists, more precisely). Hitler was a big fan of Gobineau, and more stridently, Chamberlain. In his later life, Chamberlain became a confirmed Nazi and was hailed as one of the "philosophical fathers" of the Nazi movement.

I don't know if Hitler even read Darwin or cared much about him. And I think it's a stretch to equate Darwin's THEORY of evolution with anything that Hitler believed.

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