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Harun Yahya

tence and the survival of the fittest as the law of nature, and the consequent use of state power for a public
policy of natural selection… 93

Professor Stein's article makes clear that the claim that hu-
Hitler and the Nazis reinforced their perverted
man beings are no different from animals underlay German
ideas—the product of their own mental instabil-
Social Darwinism. He continues: ities—with Social Darwinist statements, and car-
ried out the worst slaughter in world history.
The basic outline of German social Darwinism [was] … man was

merely a part of nature with no special transcendent qualities or
special humanness. On the other hand, the Germans were mem-
bers of a biologically superior community … politics was merely
the straightforward application of the laws of biology. In essence,
Haeckel and his fellow social Darwinists advanced the ideas that

were to become the core assumptions of national socialism…. The
business of the corporate state was eugenics or artificial selec-
tion…. 94

These errors of National Socialism, clearly set out in Stein's
text, prepared the groundwork for a world war in which many

countries were forced to participate. Nazism, which grew and
developed with the support of Darwin's illusory theories, was the archi-
tect of a disaster the like of which the world had seldom ever seen. So ter-
rible was this catastrophe that millions lost their lives and whole cities

were wiped off the map. The worst harm was suffered by German soci-
ety itself—which Nazi propaganda had claimed would gain strength
and progress. Once again it was demonstrated that ruthless conflict and
seeking to eliminate others can never carry a nation forward.

As long as he lived, Hitler never abandoned the view Nazis held
of themselves and others, which he summarized in the words: "We
Nazis … are barbarians! We want to be barbarians. It is an honorable
title [for, by it,] we shall rejuvenate the world." 95

As in Sir Arthur Keith's words, Hitler "consciously sought to make
the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution." 96 About
the theory of evolution, Hitler and war, Keith says the following:

If war be the progeny of evolution - and I am convinced that it is - then evo-
lution has "gone mad", reaching such a height of ferocity as must frustrate its

proper role in the world of life... There is no way of getting rid of war save one,
and that is to rid human nature of the sanctions imposed on it by the law of evo-
lution. 97

In Hitler's Personal Security, Peter Hoffmann discusses Hitler's
Darwinist views:

Hitler believed in struggle as the Darwinian principle of human

life that forced every people to try to dominate all others;
without struggle they would rot and perish. Even in his own
defeat in April 1945, Hitler expressed his faith in the survival
of the stronger and declared the Slavic peoples to have

proven themselves the stronger. 98
In short, as can be seen from the opinions of a great

many historians and researchers, as well as from
Hitler's writings and speeches, Nazism drew