Tag: Nazis
Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism.
Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda
The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality.
Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism
Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right.
Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking
It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.”
New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now
To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution.