→David Klinghoffer: Actually Hitler hated Darwinism, and banned Darwin's books on evolution in 1935. He did like social Darwinism though.
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* "crude social-Darwinism" gave Hitler "his entire political ‘world-view.’ "
* "crude social-Darwinism" gave Hitler "his entire political ‘world-view.’ "
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Hitler, like many other Europeans and Americans of his day, saw [[Darwinism]] as offering a total picture of social reality. This view called "social Darwinism" is a logical extension of [[Evolutionism|Darwinian evolutionary theory]] and was articulated by [[Charles Darwin]] himself.
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This view called "social Darwinism" is a logical extension of [[Evolutionism|Darwinian evolutionary theory]] and was articulated by [[Charles Darwin]] himself.