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From Darwin to Hitler. Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2006

Helmut Walser Smith
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University

Abstract

“Darwinism was a necessary, but not sufficient, cause for Nazi ideology.” This is the thesis of Richart Weikart's important, scholarly, controversial, but narrowly conceived book. Put more strongly, but within the parameters of Weikert's argument: No Darwin, no Hitler.

Type
Book Review
Copyright
© 2006 Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

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