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How were Darwin and Herbert Spencer's ideas adopted by Hitler or Nazis ?

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(i) Hitler borrowed racism from thinkers like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
(ii) Darwin was a natural scientist, who tried to selection. Herbert Spencer later added the idea of survival of the fittest.
(iii) According to this idea, only those species survived on earth that could adapt themselves to changing climatic conditions.
(iv) Darwin never advocated human intervention in what he throught was a purely natural process of selection. However his ideas were used by racist thinkers and politicians to justify imperial rule over conquered people.
(v) The Nazi argument was simple : the strongest race would survive and weak ones would perish. The Aryan race was the finest. It had to retain its purity, become stronger and dominate the world.
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