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1 Was Hitler a darwinian ? Robert J. Richards The University of Chicago The darwinian underpinnings of Nazi racial ideology are patently obvious. Hitler 's chapter on "Nation and Race" in Mein Kampf discusses the racial struggle for existence in clear darwinian terms. Richard Weikart, Historian, Cal. State, Stanislaus1 Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 2. 1. Introduction .. 1 2. The Issues regarding a Supposed Conceptually Causal Connection . 4 3. darwinian Theory and Racial Hierarchy .. 10 4. The Racial Ideology of Gobineau and Chamberlain .. 16 5. Chamberlain and Hitler .. 27 6. Mein Kampf .. 29 7. Struggle for Existence .. 37 8. The Political Sources of Hitler s Anti-Semitism .. 41 9. Ethics and Social Darwinism .. 44 10. Was the Biological Community under Hitler darwinian ? .. 46 11. Conclusion .. 52 1. Introduction Several scholars and many religiously conservative thinkers have recently charged that Hitler s ideas about race and racial struggle derived from the theories of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), either directly or through intermediate sources.
“Hitler” in a search engine and several million hits will be returned, most from religiously and politically conservative websites, articles, and books. With the exception of the aforementioned, most scholars of Hitler’s reign don’t argue for a strong link between Darwin’s biology and Hitler’s racism, but they will often
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