[sarcasm] Why, not only that, he was the biggest Bible-thumper in history! He put up monuments to `Aseret HaDibberot everywhere! He made kids read Genesis (in the original Hebrew!) in biology class! He rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem!
And he forced all Germans to celebrate the anti-Semitic holiday of Purim! Monster!
DANG those chr*stians!!! [/sarcasm]
I'm missing your point.
Whether or not Darwin used race as a generic term applicable to all living things/merely arbitrary categories, or race is restricted to categories of just human beings is irrelevent to demonstation that Hitler's philosophy which led to the Holocaust was based Darwin's naturalistic evolution.
Darwin's idea that evolution means the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life did indeed eventually led to Nazism and the Jewish holocaust - even if Darwin himself would have been appalled at the thought.
Hilter was a believer in evolution:
Sir Arthur Keith was a British anthropologist, an atheistic evolutionist and an anti-Nazi, but he drew this chilling conclusion:
‘The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.’
Reference
Keith, A., Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, p. 230, 1947.
Hitler used Evolutionary Theory to Justify the Holocaust
In Mein Kampf, Hitler used the German word for evolution (Entwicklung) many times, citing "lower human types." He criticized the Jews for bringing "Negroes into the Rhineland" with the aim of "ruining the white race by the necessarily resulting ization." He spoke of "Monstrosities halfway between man and ape" and lamented the fact of Christians going to "Central Africa" to set up "Negro missions," resulting in the turning of "healthy . . . human beings into a rotten brood of s." In his chapter entitled "Nation and Race," he said, "The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be unthinkable." A few pages later, he said, "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."
"From the ‘Preservation of favored races in the struggle for life' it was a short step to the preservation of favored individuals, classes or nations - and from their preservation to their glorification . . . Thus, it has become a portmunteau of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and dictatorship, of the cults of the hero, the superman, and the master race . . . recent expressions of this philosophy, such as Mein Kampf are, unhappily, too familiar to require exposition here." - Gertrude Himmelfarb, Social Darwinism in American Thought
Without the philisophical ideas that man is nothing more than an intellectual animal, he is not distinst from animals in any way, AND man is so intelligent and evolved so that he should direct his future evolution Hitler would have never happened in history as we know it.
These ideas stand in antithesis to the philisophical ideas that man is created, man is created special, unique from animals, in the image of God, and the purpose in life is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.