Helen:
There is an excellent book "Nazi Culture" by George L. Mosse, that has a good
chapter on Nazis and science. They claimed to be very scientific but would go
on for pages on the superiority of Newton over "the Jew Einstein", based on
Newton superior volk spirit. They rejected the even then accepted biological
opinion that outbreeding often produces strong offspring, sometime stronger
than either parent and instead proclaimed as biological law that mated
different breeds produces inevitably weak and sickly offspring. I can't find
it in this book, but I think that they had some strange belief that the earth
began as a ice world as opposed to a molten one. I think that they, like
Stalin, were opposed to Darwin partly because they did not belief that
species change with time, but instead that there were "pure blood lines" that
could be corrupted into sickly and weak mud people by interbreeding and all
this is very far from anything Darwinian. I suppose that they did argue for a
survival of the fittest mentality, but they did not argue that the Aryan
evolved as the fittest, but he had always been the highest form of creation.
Nope, I think that Darwin is far less responsible for causing a Hitler to
pollute the Earth with his ideas than Martin Luther and scores of other
Christians were.
Helen Willis
hhiwater@bright.net