Page 54 - Fascism: The Bloody Ideology Of Darwinsim

THE IDEA OF MAN AS
AN "ANIMAL," THE
IDEOLOGICAL
FOUNDATION BEHIND
THE NAZI MURDERS

Eugenic killings, which had
been defended by Ernst
Haeckel, and were put into
practice by the Nazis after
1933, as well as other Nazi
genocides carried out
against various ethnic
groups such as the Jews and
the Gypsies during the war,
share one common
principle: the idea that
people are animals.
By the inspiration they drew
from Darwin's theory of
evolution, the Nazis
considered mankind to
consist of different animal
groups which made up the
different human races, and
believed that there must
necessarily be continuous
conflict between them. As a
result of this superstition,
they felt justified the
murdering innocent women
and children, the sick and
the elderly, in the name of
"racial purity."