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the only basis of a successful Germany. Robert Clark, author of

Darwin: Before and After, makes this comment on Hitler's devo-
tion to Darwinism:
Evolutionary ideas - quite undisguised - lie at the basis of all that
is worst in Mein Kampf - and in his public speeches. … Hitler rea-
soned … that a higher race would always conquer a lower. 91
Beate Wilder-Smith, author of The Day Nazi Germany Died,

describes the fundamental factor in Nazi doctrine:
One of the central planks in Nazi theory and doctrine was … evo-
lutionary theory [and] … that all biology had evolved … upward,
and that … less evolved types … should be actively eradicated
[and] … that natural selection could and should be actively aided,
and therefore [the Nazis] instituted political measures to eradi-
cate … Jews, and … blacks, whom they considered as "underde-
veloped". 92

In American Scientist, Professor George J. Stein wrote an
article headed "Biological Science and the Roots of Nazism":

Hitler's book
Mein Kampf
included a great
many Darwinist
statements.

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