Book review: Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview: How the Nazi Eugenic Crusade for a Superior Race Caused the Greatest Holocaust in World History | Frair, W. 2012.
CRSQ 49(2):165. CELD ID 25753Abstract Reading this book is an experience. It grabbed not only my attention but also my emotions. Adolf Hitler, the German leader (Fuhrer), "was inspired by Darwinism to pursue a utopian project of biologically improving the human race" (p. 950> This application of Darwinism to society was based upon an evolutionary ethic. When the Germans put members of the "inferior races" (especially Jews) in concentration camps, it was like the quarantining of "sick people."Reading this book is an experience. It grabbed not only my attention but also my emotions. Adolf Hitler, the German leader (Fuhrer), "was inspired by Darwinism to pursue a utopian project of biologically improving the human race" (p. 95). This application of Darwinism to society was based upon an evolutionary ethic. When the Germans put members of the "inferior races" (especially Jews) in concentration camps, it was like the quarantining of "sick people."
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