Page 57 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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T T H E T E R R I B L E A L L I A N C E B E T W E E N D A R W I N A N D F A S C I S M 57
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The Bloody Alliance Between Darwin and Hitler
azism was born in the chaos of the Germany which
N emerged defeated from the First World War. The
leader of the party was the angry and aggressive
Adolf Hitler. Racism formed the basis of Hitler's
world view. Hitler believed that the Aryan race, the fundamental element
of the German nation, was superior to all the other races and had to rule
them. He dreamed that the Aryan race would found a world empire that
would last 1,000 years.
The scientific support Hitler found for these racist theories was Dar-
win's theory of evolution.
Hitler's most important idea-moulder, the racist German historian
Heinrich von Treitschke, was strongly affected by Darwin's theory of evo-
lution and based his racist views on Darwinism. He used to say, "Nations
can only develop by violent competition like Darwin's survival of the
fittest," and declared that this meant lasting and inevitable war. His view
was that, "Conquering by the sword is a way of bringing civilisation to
barbarism and knowledge to ignorance." He thought: "The yellow races
have no understanding of artistic ability and political freedom. It is the
destiny of the black races to serve the whites and to be the target of the
whites' loathing for all eternity…" 43
While Hitler was developing his theories he drew inspiration, like
Treitschke, from Darwin and particularly Darwin's idea of the fight for
survival. The title of his notorious book Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") was
inspired by the idea of this fight for survival. Just like Darwin, Hitler gave
non-European races the status of monkeys, and said, "Take away the
Nordic Germans and nothing remains but the dance of apes." 44