Soon many began to view [[racial]] struggles, and [[war]] itself, as a perfectly natural example of survival-of-the-fittest in the human race. The horrific wars of the 20th century, employing shockingly brutal tactics, were encouraged by a belief in survival-of-the-fittest among humans. While social Darwinism itself was applied to social and economic situations rather than military ones, it is easy how extreme versions of social Darwinism could justify physical struggles among races.
==[[David Klinghoffer]]==
[[John Toland]]’s ''Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography'' says this of Hitler’s Second Book published in 1928:
* “An essential of Hitler’s conclusions in this book was the conviction drawn from Darwin that [[might makes right]].”<ref name="dhc">[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mjg1NDg2ZDM5YTMwMGFiZGNhNTU5M2MwOTQ2NGE1Mjc= ]</ref>
In his biography, ''Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris'', [[Ian Kershaw]] explains that
* “crude social-Darwinism” gave Hitler “his entire political ‘world-view.’ ”
Hitler, like lots of 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 [[Darwinian evolutionary theory]] and was articulated by [[Darwin]] himself.
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