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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
Helmut Walser Smith
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
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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.

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Book Review
Information
Central European History , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 142 - 144
Copyright
© 2006 Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

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