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human societies, wars also began to be viewed as a necessity for the
development of mankind. For example, Hitler ascribed Germany's great-
ness to the elimination by war of its weaker members over the centuries.
Although the Germans were no strangers to war this new "scientific" jus-
tification was a force to back up their warlike policies.
Elsewhere, Hitler had claimed, "human civilization as we know it
would not exist if it were not for constant war" 69
Haeckel proposed, on the subject of war, that the savage methods of
the Spartans, one of the city states that made up
Ancient Greece, should be implemented. He wrote
that "by killing all but the ‘perfectly healthy and
strong children' the Spartans were ‘continually in
excellent strength and vigor'." 70
War was viewed as "an indispensable regula-
tor" of populations all over Europe, and not just in
Germany. "If it were not for war," German Social
Darwinist Friedrich Von Bernhardi writes, "we
should probably find that inferior and degener-
ate races would overcome healthy and youthful
Darwinist dictators and despots, who believed that war
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would lead to progress for mankind, turned the 20 cen-
tury into a lake of blood. They spread oppression to all
corners of the world.