Richard Weikart Quotes

• Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track, some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war is part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and--there you have it: Holocaust

  Richard Weikart

  War, Struggle, Eugenics

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• Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

  Richard Weikart

  Ideas, Drawing, Religion

  "'Expelled' Correct on Darwin, Hitler Link, Says Christian Group" by Alexander J. Sheffrin, www.christianpost.com. May 1, 2008.

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• El darwinismo por sí mismo no produjo el Holocausto, pero sin el darwinismo ni Hitler ni sus seguidores nazis habrían tenido los fundamentos científicos necesarios para convencerse a sí mismos y a sus colaboradores de que una de las mayores atrocidades del mundo era realmente loable desde el punto de vista moral.

  Richard Weikart

  Holocaust, Atrocities, Followers

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