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race, those with genetic illnesses and the weak all needed to be elimi-
nated; and he ordered the ruthless extermination of millions—proofs
that he regarded human beings as animals and was attached to
Darwinism. In an article titled "The Nazi Terror," Alexander Kimel—

one of the few to survive the Nazi genocide—emphasizes the link
between Darwinism and Nazism and describes how it was that the
Nazis, with their belief in Social Darwinism, were able to treat people
like animals and feel absolutely no pity for them:

Nazism with the acceptance of social Darwinism, equated man with
animals, rob him of individual freedom of making choices, the ability to
think for themselves. Brutality, terror, mendacity and ruthless exploita-
tion of man by men became the norm of behavior. If the same laws of
natural selection like the animals rule man, when the spark of the divine
is removed from man's consciousness than [sic] men can be treated like
an animals [sic]; he can be bred artificially, and treated like cattle. For
example the war and the reckless conduct of the war brought very high
casualties. Hitler tried to improve the situation, not by cutting losses,
but by improving the breeding methods. In Auschwitz ... Mengele [a
Nazi doctor] was [sic] conducted "scientific" experiments on twins,

killing them, dissecting them, trying to figure out how to improve the