The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

by Wayne Jackson

http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm

Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and his
associates perpetrated that infamous evil.
On April 22, 1993, the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in
Washington, D.C. The museum is supposed to be a reminder of the 6
million Jews (and others) who were exterminated at the behest of Adolf
Hitler and his Nazi henchmen during World War II.

Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and
his associates perpetrated that infamous evil.

What was the motive that fired the lunacy of the Fuhrer's (the word
means "leader") ambitions? The grim truth is, there is a direct
connection between the Holocaust and the teachings of Charles Darwin
and his dogma of biological evolution.

In 1859, Charles Darwin published his revolutionary book, The Origin of
Species. Actually, the full title of the work is, The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection: or, The Preservation Of Favored Races In
The Struggle For Life. In this book, the author contended that higher
levels of biological existence are attained as the strong eliminate the
weak in the struggle for survival.

Subsequently, Darwin produced yet another work, The Descent of Man
(1871), in which he wrote even more explicitly:

"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and
those that survive commonly exhibit a vigourous state of health. We
civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of
elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the
sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost
skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason
to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak
constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak
members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has
attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must
be highly injurious to the race of man" (Darwin, 1872, p. 130, emp.
added).
Darwin's influence was tremendous and his ideas were applied to many
areas of life. One of his admirers was Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900),
a German philosopher. Nietzsche took the famous naturalist's
reasoning to what he felt was its logical conclusion - he longed to
see the development of a "super-race," and he felt that such could
only be achieved by the extinction of inferior races and individuals.

Nietzsche was a vigorous opponent of Christian morality, which he knew
fostered support for the weak. One historian has written that
Nietzsche's cardinal idea was "the notion that natural selection
should be permitted to operate unhindered in the case of human beings
as it does with plants and animals."

However, he believed that "before any such process of natural
selection could operate, religious obstacles would have to be removed.
Nietzsche therefore demanded that the moral supremacy of Christianity
and Judaism should be overthrown" (Burns, 1963, p. 809). He argued
that the preservation of sick and suffering people contributed to the
deterioration of the race (Flewelling, 1946, p. 423).

In 1888, the German philosopher lapsed into a state of complete
insanity, which continued until his death in 1900. Had his views been
practically applied to him, he would have been eliminated at that
point.

His ideas did not die with him. Nietzsche's views, coupled with the
earlier notions of Johann Fichte (1762-1814) - who argued that the
Germans were a superior race destined to assume leadership of the
civilized world - provided the philosophical basis for Hitler's
policy which was implemented in the Holocaust.

Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. His childhood was an unhappy one, and
early-on, he was undisciplined and rebellious. Hitler fought in the
German army during World War I (1914-1918), and was twice decorated. In
1920, he joined the German Workers' party which eventually evolved
into the Nazi party.

Adolf Hitler was a skillful manipulator of men and he gradually began
to gain power. In 1923, he attempted to incite a revolution. The
rebellion was foiled and he was sentenced to five years in prison.
While there, Hitler began the composition of his famous book Mein Kampf
(My Struggle). In this wretched volume, the mad ruler set forth his
views regarding the future of Germany.

He believed that the German people were the highest species on earth.
Germans must be kept pure, he argued, so that German children would be
"images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and
ape" (Jenks, 1979, p. 238). He felt that if the Jews were allowed to
mingle with the superior species, it would render futile "an
evolutionary higher stage of being" (Clark, 1967, p. 115). When
Hitler came into full power in the early 1930's, his beliefs were
politically and militarily set in motion.

A key plan for the implementation of Hitler's policies was the
practice of eugenics. Eugenics has to do with the systematic
elimination of biologically unfit individuals from society. In Mein
Kampf, Hitler declared:

"The mixing of the higher and lower races is clearly against the
intent of nature and involves the extinction of the Aryan race . . .
Where Aryan blood has mixed with that of lower peoples the result has
been the end of the bearers of culture" (quoted in Howard & Rifkin,
1977, p. 72).
Every student of history is familiar with how Hitler attempted to
eliminate the "unfit" from German society. The deformed, the
mentally ill, the Jews, etc. - none of those whom he deemed unworthy
were spared. Again, though, the question is - what ideology was
motivating this madman?

Though one hears precious little about it these days, careful scholars
have not altogether ignored the connection between Hitler's
holocaustic policies and the evolutionary philosophy which the Fuhrer
had adopted. In his monumental work, The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich, William Shirer asked:

". . . where did Hitler get his ideas? . . . he had somehow absorbed,
as had so many Germans, a weird mixture of the irresponsible,
megalomanical ideas which erupted from German thinkers during the
nineteenth century."
Shirer goes on to mention by name such men as Fichte, Hegel (who
inspired Marx and Lenin), Treitschke, Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, the
composer (1960, p. 97).

Hitler almost idolized Nietzsche. He frequently visited the Nietzsche
museum in Weimar "and publicized his veneration for the philosopher
by posing for photographs of himself staring in rapture at the bust of
the great man" (Shirer, p. 100). It has also been shown that Ernst
Haeckel (1834-1919), an evolutionary biologist contemporary with
Darwin, was the man who introduced evolutionary concepts into German
intellectual life, and thus he significantly helped to shape Hitler's
twisted thinking (Morris, 1989, pp. 72-74).

Sir Arthur Keith was one of Great Britain's leading evolutionary
anthropologists in the mid-1900's. In one of his popular books he
conceded:

"The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an
evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practices of
Germany conform to the theory of evolution" (1947, p. 230).
Dr. Robert E.D. Clark has noted:

"Adolf Hitler's mind was captivated by evolutionary teaching -
probably since the time he was a boy. Evolutionary ideas - quite
undisguised - lie at the basis of all that is worst in Mein Kampf -
and in his public speeches" (1967, p. 115).
Dr. Edward Simpson, an evolutionary professor of biology at Purdue
University, while attempting to weaken the association between
Darwinism and the Holocaust, nonetheless confessed:

"I don't claim that Darwin and his theory of evolution brought on
the holocaust; but I cannot deny that the theory of evolution, and the
atheism it engendered, led to the moral climate that made a holocaust
possible" (1983, p. 24B).
In all the media attention that has been given to the Holocaust over
the past several decades, this writer has not seen a solitary line from
the popular press addressing the philosophical foundation upon which
Nazism was based.

Why has no consideration been given to the ideological factors that
spawned the horrible tragedy of the Holocaust? The answer is simple.
Modern journalists are intimidated by or enamored with the Darwinean
hypothesis. They thus refuse to acknowledge the connection between the
seed and the fruit.

But the association is historically undeniable. We might do well to
reflect upon the words of George Santayana: Those who do not remember
the past are condemned to relive it.

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Darwinism and Atheism Made Holocaust Possible

There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

by Wayne Jackson


http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm



Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and his
associates perpetrated that infamous evil.
On April 22, 1993, the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in
Washington, D.C. The museum is supposed to be a reminder of the 6
million Jews (and others) who were exterminated at the behest of Adolf
Hitler and his Nazi henchmen during World War II.

Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and
his associates perpetrated that infamous evil.

What was the motive that fired the lunacy of the Fuhrer's (the word
means "leader") ambitions? The grim truth is, there is a direct
connection between the Holocaust and the teachings of Charles Darwin
and his dogma of biological evolution.

In 1859, Charles Darwin published his revolutionary book, The Origin of
Species. Actually, the full title of the work is, The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection: or, The Preservation Of Favored Races In
The Struggle For Life. In this book, the author contended that higher
levels of biological existence are attained as the strong eliminate the
weak in the struggle for survival.

Subsequently, Darwin produced yet another work, The Descent of Man
(1871), in which he wrote even more explicitly:


"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and
those that survive commonly exhibit a vigourous state of health. We
civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of
elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the
sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost
skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason
to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak
constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak
members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has
attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must
be highly injurious to the race of man" (Darwin, 1872, p. 130, emp.
added).
Darwin's influence was tremendous and his ideas were applied to many
areas of life. One of his admirers was Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900),
a German philosopher. Nietzsche took the famous naturalist's
reasoning to what he felt was its logical conclusion - he longed to
see the development of a "super-race," and he felt that such could
only be achieved by the extinction of inferior races and individuals.

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

by Wayne Jackson


http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm

Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and his
associates perpetrated that infamous evil.
On April 22, 1993, the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated in
Washington, D.C. The museum is supposed to be a reminder of the 6
million Jews (and others) who were exterminated at the behest of Adolf
Hitler and his Nazi henchmen during World War II.

He believed that the German people were the highest species on earth.

Germans must be kept pure,

he argued, so that German children would be
"images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and
ape" (Jenks, 1979, p. 238).

He felt that if the Jews were allowed to
mingle with the superior species, it would render futile "an
evolutionary higher stage of being" (Clark, 1967, p. 115).

A key plan for the implementation of Hitler's policies was the
practice of eugenics. Eugenics has to do with the systematic
elimination of biologically unfit individuals from society. In Mein
Kampf, Hitler declared:


"The mixing of the higher and lower races is clearly against the
intent of nature and involves the extinction of the Aryan race . . .
Where Aryan blood has mixed with that of lower peoples the result has
been the end of the bearers of culture" (quoted in Howard & Rifkin,
1977, p. 72).

Every student of history is familiar with how Hitler attempted to
eliminate the "unfit" from German society. The deformed, the
mentally ill, the Jews, etc. - none of those whom he deemed unworthy
were spared. Again, though, the question is - what ideology was
motivating this madman?

Though one hears precious little about it these days, careful scholars
have not altogether ignored the connection between Hitler's
holocaustic policies and the evolutionary philosophy which the Fuhrer
had adopted. In his monumental work, The Rise and Fall of the Third
Reich, William Shirer asked:

". . . where did Hitler get his ideas? . . . he had somehow absorbed,
as had so many Germans, a weird mixture of the irresponsible,
megalomanical ideas which erupted from German thinkers during the
nineteenth century."
Shirer goes on to mention by name such men as Fichte, Hegel (who
inspired Marx and Lenin), Treitschke, Nietzsche and Richard Wagner, the
composer (1960, p. 97).

Why has no consideration been given to the ideological factors that
spawned the horrible tragedy of the Holocaust? The answer is simple.
Modern journalists are intimidated by or enamored with the Darwinean
hypothesis. They thus refuse to acknowledge the connection between the
seed and the fruit.

But the association is historically undeniable. We might do well to
reflect upon the words of George Santayana: Those who do not remember
the past are condemned to relive it.

http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

by Wayne Jackson


http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm



Civilized men lament the Holocaust (1933-45) as one of the darkest eras
of modern history. There is, however, almost a conspiracy of historical
silence - few journalists care to reflect upon just why Hitler and his
associates perpetrated that infamous evil.

The Holocaust: Why Did It Happen?

by Wayne Jackson


http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/holocaustWhy.htm

In 1859, Charles Darwin published his revolutionary book, The Origin of
Species. Actually, the full title of the work is, The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection: or, The Preservation Of Favored Races In
The Struggle For Life. In this book, the author contended that higher
levels of biological existence are attained as the strong eliminate the
weak in the struggle for survival.