Hitler and Darwin

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Germanic features, such as blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler wrote that, “The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.” (Hitler, 16) What Hitler proposed was the limiting of variation. For example Hitler writes, “The German Reich as a state must embrace a; Germans and has the task only of assembling and preserving the most valuable stocks of basic racial element in this people, but slowly and surely of raising them to a dominant position.” (Hitler, 20) Hitler believed that those not of Germanic descent are inferior and would dilute the gene pool. Foreigners were looked poorly upon for, “Every racial crossing leads to inevitably sooner or later to the decline of the hybrid product as long as the higher element of this crossing is itself still existent in any kind of racial unity.” (Hitler, 23) Hitler thought that this would be achieved if interracial breeding was prevented. The need to ...

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species which are most numerous in individuals have the best chance of producing favorable variations within in any given period.” (Darwin, 30) A large population means there is there is a larger gene pool, allowing for increased variation to occur. By removing a large portion of the population, Hitler decreased the size of the gene pool. Natural selection would act against Hitler’s pure Aryan race. In terms of Darwin’s natural selection theory, it is better to have a population with great genetic diversity over a concentrated amount of variations. Diversity would account for many genetic variations providing a better future for offspring if their environment were to change. Darwin would ...

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