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All this madness was carried out in the name of implementing Dar-
winist principles on society. The American historian Michael Grodin,
author of the book The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code, reveals the
reality in this way:
I think what happened was that there was a perfect match of Nazi ideology
and Social Darwinism and racial hygiene as it developed in the turn of the
th
20 Century. 53
George Stein explains the subject
National socialism, whatever else it may have been was ultimately the first
fully self-conscious attempt to organize a political community on a basis of
an explicit biopolicy: a biopolicy fully congruent with the scientific facts
of the Darwinian revolution. 54
The famous evolutionist Sir Arthur Keith comments on Hitler as fol-
lows:
The German Führer is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make
the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. 55
The author of the book Darwin: Before and After, Robert Clarke, con-
cluded, Adolf Hitler: "…was captivated by evolutionary teaching – prob-
ably since the time he was a boy. Hitler reasoned … that a higher race
would always conquer a lower." The political philosophy of Nazi Ger-
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many took shape under the influence of these ideas of Hitler's.
The author of the book Race and Reich, Joseph Tenenbaum noted that
the political philosophy of Germany was built on the belief that critical for
evolutionary progress were:
… struggle, selection, and survival of the fittest, all notions and observations
arrived at … by Darwin … but already in luxuriant bud in the German social
philosophy of the nineteenth century. … Thus developed the doctrine of
Germany's inherent right to rule the world on the basis of superior strength
… [of a] "hammer and anvil" relationship between the Reich and the weaker
nations. 57
Adolf Hitler was not alone among Nazi leaders in his "war of ideo-
logical evolution." Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, "stated that
the law of nature must take its course in the survival of the fittest." In fact,