Answer:
Hitler's
racism borrowed from thinkers like Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Herbert
Spencer (1820-1903).
Darwin was a natural scientist who tried to explain the creation of
plants and animals through the concepts of evolution and natural selection. In
1859, Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'
in which he proposed a theory of evolution by the process of natural selection.
But he never advocated human intervention in what he thought was a purely
natural process of selection.
His ideas were used by racist politicians to justify
imperial rule over conquered peoples.
Herbert Spencer was deeply influenced by Charles Darwin's
'On the Origin of Species' and gave the idea of 'Survival of the Fittest' in
his book, 'Principles of Biology'. He developed an all embracing conception of
evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological
organism, the human mind and human culture and societies. According to his ideas,
only those species survival on Earth that could adopt themselves to changing
climatic conditions. Adopting his idea, the Nazi government suggested that the
strongest race, i.e., Nordic German Aryans would survive and the weak ones
would perish.
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