Hitler certainly did know of Darwinian evolution .... Nazi racial theories were based on Darwin's "struggle for existence". His book was entitled My Struggle. "The preservation of favored races in the struggle for life" was Darwin's theme in the Descent of Man .... and the essence of Nazi racial science. Hitlerism was Darwinism applied.
From wikipedia:
“The worst danger is that we are interrupting the natural selection process ourselves (by caring for the sick and the weak). ... The most far-sighted racial state in history, Sparta, systematically implemented these racial laws.”[25]
25.^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Heinsohn, Gunnar (November 2000). "What Makes the Holocaust a Uniquely Unique Genocide". Journal of Genocide Research 2 (3): 411–430. doi:10.1080/713677615. migs.concordia.ca.
The racial laws to which Hitler referred resonate directly with his ideas in Mein Kampf. In his first edition of Mein Kampf, Hitler stated that the destruction of the weak and sick is far more humane than their protection. However, apart from his allusion to humane treatment, Hitler saw a purpose in destroying "the weak" in order to provide the proper space and purity for the strong.[26]
26.^ A. Hitler. Mein Kampf (Munich: Franz Eher Nachfolger, 1930), pg 478
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In the first edition of Volume I of Mein Kampf (1925), Hitler
had written: “The exposure of sick, weak, deformed children, i.e. their annihilation, was in reality a thousand times more humane than the deplorable lunacy of our present-day time.”29
Where, for example, infanticide is replaced by prophylactic birth control, and every child born is thus a wanted child, the “obsession” emerges of “saving” even the weakest, even the sickest, at all costs. […] A stronger race will banish the weaker ones, for in the end the instinct to survive will always break the ridiculous bonds of a so-called humanity of the individual, allowing the humanity of nature to take
its place, a humanity which destroys the weak to provide space for the strong. Therefore, he who wants to ensure the existence of the German nation through a self-limitation of its
reproductive process is depriving it of the future.30
At the 1929 party convention in Nuremberg, Hitler publicly opposed the “Jew’s train of thought,” citing an older—Indo-Germanic—right:
If one million children were born in Germany per year and 700,000 to 800,000 of the weakest eliminated, the final result might possibly even be an increase of strength. The worst danger is that we are interrupting the natural selection process ourselves (by caring for the sick and weak). … The most far-sighted racial state of history, Sparta, ystematically implemented these racial laws.32
When the killing of the handicapped was fully under way, on December 4, 1940, a High Consistory of Stuttgart, Reinhold Sautter, engaged, in a private discussion Eugen Staehle, Hitler’s official in charge of the gassing facilities in
the psychiatric clinic of Grafeneck, Wuerttemberg. Staehle reprimanded Sautter urging him to stop the transgression of a divine law, saying “The fifth commandment: ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ is not a commandment of God at all but a Jewish invention.”33
Basically, Staehle let Sautter know that the clergyman— though probably not a friend of the Jews—was verjudet, like all the churches, a victim of Jewification.
Hitler’s people knew about the “Jewish invention” of the prohibition of killing, no less than the Bishop of Muenster. There was an indirect dialogue going on between the two sides. Of course, we cannot prove that Staehle’s statement was made according to highest orders. Yet, we know that he himself
is not on record for having carried out investigations on the history of the Occidental code. We know, however, that he hit upon a correct observation—the civilization of the world did indeed receive its law forbidding murder from Judaism: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17).
Pagan authors of antiquity already reported on the extensive elaboration of this Judaic law. It is the first to comprise protection of the newborn, whose killing was allowed in the Greco-Roman cultural complex when called for by considerations of birth control or health. In 300 BCE, for example, the Greek philosopher Hecateus of Abdera was positively astounded by the fact that the Jews raise all of their children. 34 In the first century CE, the major historian of the Roman empire, Tacitus, wrote of the Jews, “It is a mortal sin to kill an unwanted child” (Histories Vol 5).35
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Not until the year 318 CE was the Judaic prohibition against infanticide enacted by the Roman empire under Constantine the Great, never again to be formally expunged from the criminal statutes of the Occident and the Europeanized nations.36 India, under the British, outlawed infanticide in 1839.37 In
about 1900 Japan had done the same.38 In 1949, China followed suit.39 Hitler’s circle had fully understood that the prohibition of infanticide is not a law of nature but a moral principle created by man—by “the Jews”—and, therefore,
also abolishable by man.
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How does one have to read statements like these or the passage reported by Rauschning—“The Tables of Mount Sinai have lost their validity, Conscience is a Jewish invention./In earlier ages there existed the good right of the victor to
exterminate entire tribes, entire nations”? On December 5, 1940, Hitler approved the plans of the Wehrmacht to attack Soviet Russia and to annex it up to the Ural Mountains, i.e. up to the border of Asia.49 From different sources it becomes
clear what Hitler meant with his announcement from November 5, 1937: “I am not dealing with winning new people but with agriculturally usable space.”
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Admiral Canaris, the chief of German intelligence (Abwehr), had conveyed this to the British:
Genghis Khan drove millions of women and children to their death, consciously and light-heartedly. […] I [Hitler] gave the order—and I will have anyone who utters even a word of criticism shot—that the war aim does not consist of reaching certain lines but of the physical destruction of the enemy. It is for this purpose that I have assembled my death’s-head squads, for the time being only in the East, with the command to send [every] man, woman and child of Polish descent and tongue to their death, mercilessly and pitilessly. Only by these means can the Lebensraum we require be gained.50
Note: The Nazis recognized Genghis Khan as a fellow freethinker.
After Germany’s own mentally handicapped and the seriously wounded German soldiers, the Polish elite became—in late September 1939—the third group to be exterminated by Hitler-Germany: “There must be [Hitler on October 2, 1940] no Polish members of the elite in occupied Poland. Where they exist they have to be killed—even if this may sound hard.”51 His party’s race-political of? ce [Rassepolitisches Amt der Reichsleitung der NSDAP] had already demanded in Autumn 1939: “In the long run the complete deletion of the Polish
nation [Polentum]”52 must be achieved.
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‘A ridiculous hundred million Slavs’,” Hitler proclaimed [on August 6, 1942], “will we absorb or expell?”56 Already in June 1940, Heinrich Himmler, chief of SS and police, had informed twelve leaders of the SS that “30 million of the Slavic population” 57 of the Soviet Union were to be killed outright. “Twenty-nine million”58 were to be worked to death to lay the infrastructure for some 20 million German settlers. The remaining 30–40 million were to be expelled to Siberia—with a killing rate of such deportations reaching some 30 percent or 10–13 million. The expelled were even to keep their leader, Stalin, whom Hitler characterized, on July 11, 1941, as one “of the most extraordinary ? gures of world history.”59
Hitler shows grudging respect for his fellow freethinker, Stalin.
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Cleansing the Germans from Judaism’s principle of the sanctity of life by eliminating the Jews
In hindsight, we know a lot about the crimes of the Wehrmacht and not only of the SS. But Hitler was worried to the end that he would fail in his re-education of the average German male. After all the purges of his of? cers’ corps it still did not function as ordered. General Blaskowitz—chief of staff in occupied Poland, a devoted German nationalist and soldier—did not only show a lack of ruthlessness. He collected information on the atrocities of the SS units and the Einsatzgruppen killing the Polish elite and sent it—on November 27, 1939—to his superiors in Berlin. On February 2, 1940, he demanded—together with General Ulex—to use the Wehrmacht to round up the SS units and remove them:69 They wrote to Berlin:
The army views the SS and the police [under SS command] with abomination and hatred. Every soldier feels disgusted and abhorred by these crimes committed in Poland by citizens
of the Reich and representatives of the state. He does not understand how such atrocities— taking place, so to speak, under his protection—can go unpunished.70
Hitler had prepared himself for his soldiers’ “pangs of consciousness” and, therefore, had kept his genocidal policy a secret—as he had done with “euthanasia” within Germany. Other than with “euthanasia,”71 however, there was—very much like in the Holocaust—no order signed by Hitler himself to eliminate Poland’s elite.72 The orders came from the SS to whom Hitler had given verbal orders. Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the SS-police, wrote on July 2, 1940:
The orders for the police were so radical—e.g., the order to liquidate many Polish elite circles amounting to the thousands—that, of course, could not be conveyed to the commanding officers in the field or to their superior staff [in Berlin].73
The Germans—as Hitler saw it—were still in the grip of the Jewish code of ethics or Jewified Christianity. On January 20, 1940, his adjutant reported him saying:
The Wehrmacht is still running to the drumhead services. […] But, at the same time, the education of the SS points to the right direction. It would prove that—with the right
ideological education—one can be courageous without God.74
The SS education especially assaulted the Jewish commandments pertaining to charity and the protection of life. In the place of love, honor was demanded; in the place of sympathy, duty.75 The removal of Jewish ethics from Christianity was, however, estimated to be a tremendously difficult task, for from the beginning this religion was “subjected to decomposition/destruction [Zersetzung] by the Jews.”76
There can be no doubt that this education went back to Hitler’s own ideas. On February 17, 1942, at his headquarters, he lamented that:
The same Jew who once smuggled Christianity into the world of antiquity and destroyed it, that wonderful thing, has now found another weak spot: the dazed conscience of our present generation. […] Peace can only come by way of a natural order. The order demands that the nations merge in such a way that those who are capable lead. He who is inferior thus obtains more than he could ever achieve on his own. This order is being destroyed by the Jews.77
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Hitler’s evaluation of the concept of conscience most probably transforms ideas originating with Friedrich Nietzsche. He had studied parts of his writings in Landsberg prison in 1923. Nietzsche had written in 1882:
Sin is a Jewish feeling and a Jewish invention, and in view of this background to all Christian morality, Christianity was in fact out to “Jewify” the entire world.78
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