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How Darwinian Evolution Informed Hitler’s Ethics

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1066
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Tod Butterfield
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Richard Weikart
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00:12:24
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On this episode of ID The Future, Tod Butterfield talks with historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his new book Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich. In this episode, Dr. Weikart explains how Darwinian evolution informed Hitler’s ethics.

Richard Weikart

Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture
Richard Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Stanislaus, and author of From Darwin to HitlerHitler’s EthicHitler’s Religion, The Death of Humanity, and Darwinian Racism. His most recent book is Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent from Healing to Killing (2024). His PhD dissertation, Socialist Darwinism, earned the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Sciences as best dissertation in that field. He has lectured at many universities and other venues in the US and Europe. He also has been interviewed on dozens of radio shows, podcasts, and TV, and appeared in seven documentaries, including Expelled. Some of his lectures and interviews are available on YouTube.
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anthropology
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Charles Darwin
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Hitler’s Religion
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Mein Kampf
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scientific racism
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