Germany’s other Darwin-inspired Holocaust

Ian Thompson

“Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, with its brutally materialist account of nature as bleak survivalism, was made to serve as justification for the extermination of Namibian tribes and, later, for Hitler’s biological anti-Semitism.” ¹

• Herero genocide
• Namibian genocide—a precursor of the Holocaust (A Review of The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism)
• The Holocaust and evolution
• The Darwinian roots of the Nazi tree (review of From Darwin to Hitler by Richard Weikart)
• America’s evolutionists: Hitler’s inspiration? (review of War against the Weak by Edwin Black)
• Ernst Haeckel: a hostile witness to the truth of the Bible

Reference

1. Ian Thompson, review of The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, by David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen, Faber and Faber, 2010, in Telegraph (UK). p. 54, Picador, London, 2009. Return to text.