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ridiculed when it was first published, but was later widely accepted.
The Nazis distorted Darwin's theories, using them to justify warfare
and racism. 83

The historian R. Hickman expresses the influence of Darwinism on
Hitler in these words.
[Hitler] was a firm believer and preacher of evolution. Whatever the
deeper, profound, complexities of his psychosis, it is certain that [the
concept of struggle was important because]… his book, Mein Kampf,
clearly set forth a number of evolutionary ideas, particularly those
emphasizing struggle, survival of the fittest and the extermination of
the weak to produce a better society. 84

The Nazi Theory of Race

In The Mass Psychology of Fascism Wilhelm Reich describes the Nazi
theory of race thus:

The race theory proceeds from the presupposition that the exclusive
mating of every animal with its own species is an "iron law" in nature.

Nazi racial theory maintained that, in order to maintain the so-called purity of the
German races, mixed marriages had to be prevented. Little girls, brought out at
the Nuremberg rallies and ordered to offer Nazi salutes, were used as symbols of
the Nazi idea of the "master race."