[Junior]

Did their actions promote the survival of their group? An argument can be made that the Teutonic group's actions were ultimately detrimental to its survival -- hell, it didn't even last a single generation.

[r9etb]

Did their actions promote the survival of their group? An argument can be made that the Teutonic group's actions were ultimately detrimental to its survival -- hell, it didn't even last a single generation.

True enough, though that can be traced more to a few remarkably bad military decisions on the part of the Teutonic group's leadership, than in anything intrinsically wrong with their attempt to exterminate the Semitic group.

[AndrewC]

Did their actions promote the survival of their group?

Two points.

1. You were the one that pointed out individual survival does not survival make.
Survival takes many forms, not just keeping its members alive. The group still exists.

2. You defined morality as local to a group ---
Such a concept is not required to be enforced by God (God seldom intervenes anyway) and exists solely within the social construct of the group.