Page 63 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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to men. Dr Robert Wartenberg, later a prominent neurology professor in
California, tried to prove women's inferiority by arguing that they could
not survive unless they were ‘protected by men'. He con-
cluded that because the weaker women were not elimi-
nated as rapidly due to this protection, a slower rate of
evolution resulted and for this reason natural selection
was less operative on women than men. Based on these
thoughts, women in Nazi Germany were openly prohib-
ited from entering certain professions. 50
Following the development of Darwinism and the
idea of eugenics, In Germany, "racial scientists" openly
advocated the killing of unwanted members and seg-
ments of the population. One of these scientists,
Adolf Jost, "issued an early call for direct medical
killing in a book published in 1895, Das Recht auf
den Tod (The Right to Death). Jost argued that "for
the sake of the health of the social organism,
the state must take responsibility for the death
of individuals." Adolf Jost was a mentor to
Adolf Hitler, who showed himself on the politi-
cal stage nearly 30 years later. "The state must
see to it that only the healthy beget
children," Hitler said. "It must
declare unfit for propagation all who
are in any way visibly sick or who
have inherited a disease and can
therefore pass it on." 51
Under a law passed in 1933,
350,000 mentally ill people,
30,000 gypsies, and hundreds
Hitler gathered blonde, blue-eyed German girls in a
camp and ensured they would be together with SS
officers. In this way he dreamed of building a superior
race