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lepers, people with cancer, etc. are artificially kept alive … without the
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slightest profit to themselves or the general body." The solution that he
proposed was this:
... the redemption from this evil should be accomplished by a dose of
some painless and rapid poison … under the control of an authorita-
tive commission. 10
The savagery he supported had very damaging effects in
Germany. Haeckel's research led the way to the euthanasia program
known as T4, under which some 300,000 mentally handicapped, those
with physical deformities, incurables and other "undesirables" were
ruthlessly killed.
Haeckel's cruelty, and the killings Hitler encouraged and permit-
ted, had but one source: Social Darwinism.
The eugenics, euthanasia, forced sterilization, concentration
camps, racial purity and gas chambers of the mid-20th century
emerged as a result of the Darwin-Haeckel-Hitler coalition, represent-
ing the worst and most ruthless cruelty in the history of humanity.

1. Quoted in Daniel Gasman, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social
Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League (London: MacDonald,
1971), p. 6.
2. Ernst Haeckel, The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy,
trans. Joseph McCabe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905), pp. 390-91.
3. Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation, trans. E.Ray Lankester (New York: D.
Appleton, 1901), 1.23.
4. Ibid., 1.75-76.
5. Benjamin Wiker, Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (Intervarsity Press,
2002), p. 260.
6. Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors (New York: Basic Books, 1986), pp. 441, 161.
7. Gasman, Scientific Origins, p.161.
8. Haeckel, Wonders of Life, pp. 112-14.
9. Ibid., pp. 118-19.
10. Ibid., p.119.

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