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poor, captives and the needy before themselves, and that they do this
solely to gain God's approval:
They give food, despite their love for it, to the poor and orphans
and captives: "We feed you only out of desire for the Face of God.
We do not want any repayment from you or any thanks." (Surat
al-Insan, 8-9)
On the other hand, the monists, led by Haeckel, claimed that not
only physical features but also character could stem from genetic de-
fects, and maintained that everyone they considered flawed should
be eliminated.
Haeckel's books played an important role in the acceptance of
the Nazi eugenics program. Wilhelm Bölsche, Haeckel's student and
biographer, directly transmitted Haeckel's Social Darwinist ideas to
Hitler. Furthermore, the Archiv für Rassen und Gesellschaftsbiologie
("Archive for Racial and Social Biology," published from 1904 to 1944)
became the main organ for disseminating the deceptions of eugenics
and false Nazi science, and regularly carried extracts from Haeckel's
dangerous works. 6
In the words of the historian Daniel Gasman:
Hitler's views on history, politics, religion, Christianity, nature, eu-
genics, science, art, and evolution, however eclectic, and despite the
plurality of their sources, coincide for the most part with those of
Haeckel and are more than occasionally expressed in very much the
same language. 7
Haeckel defended suicide and euthanasia. According to him, a
human being came into being solely as the result of sexual relations
between the mother and father. For that reason, when life became
burdensome, that person could lose it:
If, then, the circumstances of life come to press too hard on the poor
being who has thus developed, without any fault of his, from the
fertilized ovum – if, instead of the hoped-for good, there come only
care and need, sickness and misery of every kind – he has the un-
questionable right to put an end to his sufferings by death. … The
voluntary death by which a man puts an end to intolerable suffer-
ing is really an act of redemption. 8

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