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== Influence of the Theory of Evolution on Hitler==

== Influence of the Theory of Evolution on Hitler==

George Stein wrote in the journal [[American Scientist]] the following:

George Stein wrote in the journal [[American Scientist]] the following:

{{cquote|Hitler's views are rather straightforward German [[social Darwinism]] of a type widely known and accepted throughout [[Germany]] and which, more importantly, was considered by most Germans, scientists included, to be scientifically true. More recent scholarship on [[national socialism]] and Hitler has begun to realize that... [Darwin's theory] was the specific characteristic of [[Nazism]]. National socialist "biopolicy," [was] a policy based on a mystical-biological belief in radical inequality, a [[monistic]], antitranscendent moral [[nihilism]] based on the eternal struggle for existence 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.  - George Stein, "Biological Science and the Roots of Nazism." American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1, Jan-Feb., 1988, pp. 50-58. <ref>http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1992/PSCF6-92Bergman.html</ref>}}

{{cquote|Hitler's views are rather straightforward German [[social Darwinism]] of a type widely known and accepted throughout [[Germany]] and which, more importantly, was considered by most Germans, scientists included, to be scientifically true. More recent scholarship on [[national socialism]] and Hitler has begun to realize that... [Darwin's theory] was the specific characteristic of [[Nazism]]. National socialist "biopolicy," [was] a policy based on a mystical-biological belief in radical inequality, a [[monistic]], antitranscendent moral [[nihilism]] based on the eternal struggle for existence 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.  - George Stein, "Biological Science and the Roots of Nazism." American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1, Jan-Feb., 1988, pp. 50-58. <ref>http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1992/PSCF6-92Bergman.html</ref>}}