Darwin's Influence On Mein Kampf

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As soon as Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, he set off on a mission to rid or 'cleanse' Germany of 'weakness' and 'filth'. His ultimate goal was to separate the “inferior” races and humans from the “superior” humans to create a perfect ‘Aryan’ race (blond hair blue eyed) with the use of Francis Galton’s: ‘eugenics’. Vastly influenced by Darwin’s theories (especially survival of the fittest), he believed in selective breeding of a superior gene pool. From this, the separated “inferior” races were labeled “degenerate”.

He put forward his disgust for the modernist movement in his book "Mein Kampf" and said that his hate began in Vienna . However, nowhere in the book, nor on any other account, does he recollect any actual recollections of

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