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breeding methods, to double the output of the German women.
The Germans were treated like breeding animals the S.S. - their

shepherds and their master breeder - their Fuhrer. The Germans
were treated like prize cattle, other nationalities were treated like
ordinary cattle and the Jews like vermin. 84
The Nazis adopted this perspective to perpetrate one of the
worst acts of genocide ever. The deception of the "superior race"
that Hitler maintained was based on the falsehood of inequality
among groups within a particular species. According to Hitler
and his supporters, while some species evolved, some individu-

als or groups within that species had remained backward and
primitive. This perverted claim, constituting the bedrock of
racism, was one fundamental element of Darwin's theory. In a
book about Auschwitz, Dr. Karl A. Schleunes, a professor of his-
tory, accepts Darwinism's so-called scientific justification for
racism:

Darwin's notion of struggle for survival … justified the racists'
conception of superior and inferior peoples and nations and vali-
dated the conflict between them. 85
Evolutionist scientists painted just the kind of theoretical
picture the Nazis desired. For example, the evolutionist Konrad
Lorenz, regarded as the founder of modern ethology (the sci-

ence of animal behavior), compared the improvement of races
with biological structures:
Just as in cancer the best treatment is to eradicate the parasitic
growth as quickly as possible, the eugenic defense against the
dysgenic social effects of afflicted subpopulations is of necessi-
ty… When these inferior elements are not effectively eliminated
from a [healthy] population, then - just as when the cells of a

malignant tumor are allowed to proliferate throughout the
human body - they destroy the host body as well as themselves. 86

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