Below an excerpt from the schoolbook for the Hitleryouth in the subchapter titled Charles Darwin. The nazi website from where I originally copied the text is down since some time already.
( Official Handbook for Schooling the Hitler Youth, Handbuch fr die Schulungsarbeit in der Hitler Jugend Vom deutschen Volk und seinem Lebensraum Herausgeber: Fritz Brennecke Bearbeiter: Paul Gierlichs 1937 )
From Chapter 3
" Now under some circumstances these hereditary
carriers can undergo changes. They can become interchanged. They can
add to or subtract from their length. Several clusters of hereditary
carriers can remain in one cell. All these changes are enormously
important. They actually bring about externally visible changes which
are inheritable. In that way new races can appear. These changes,
which are called mutations (after the Latin word MVTATIO = change),
are not always a good thing for living beings. They often lead to
damaging transformations. Above all sexual power is often lost. Also,
externally stunted forms are frequent. In this case the process of
selection sets in. Only that which is of value in the struggle for
life remains permanent.
We have seen therefore that the race is tied together
biologically, and to be sure by the hereditary carriers in the sex
cells. New biological characteristics, and therewith new races, can
arise only through material changes in these hereditary carriers. The
ordinary environmental influences cannot bring about such changes.
Only internal changes produce inheritable changes. Inheritance is in
the long run always victorious over environmental influences.
All arguments and political demands which are founded
on the belief in the power of environment are therefore false and
weak.
We have already said that many changes are damaging or
unfavourable. We know of some cases in which injuries to the germ
plasm have occurred. For example, injuries have come about because of
X-rays, the misuse of alcohol, sexual diseases. This knowledge comes
to us from experiments which have often meant the sacrifice of life
itself.
It is important for us to remove those injuries we
know about from the heritage of our people."
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Also quite surprising for a book that is to convince students many of whom were christian, is that in chapter one the book explicitely undermines christian teaching.
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from Chapter 1:
"The foundation of the National Socialist outlook on life is the
perception of the unlikeness of men. If, at first, we relate this
unlikeness solely to physical appearance, no one will wish to contest
it. For it is all too apparent that the red skin, the yellow, the
black, and the white are very different. Moreover, within the family
of white men all people are not the same. Every attentive observer can
recognise distinctions in physical size and shape. The colouring of
the eyes, the hair and the skin is also very different
But there are also distinctions among men with respect
to mental and spiritual traits. This becomes very clear to us whenever
different types of men converse about one and the same subject. To one
person, for example, work is a curse from heaven, a punishment of God,
and a burden to be avoided as much as possible. For another, on the
contrary, it is a necessity of life which first gives the human being
his true meaning. Again, for some, courage and loyalty are nothing but
great stupidities. They would rather be live cowards than dead heroes.
For others, however, courage and loyalty are the very marks by which
they treasure and value a man. For them a promise once made is
binding. They stick to it through good times and bad. They cannot live
without honour and prefer death to cowardice.
....
" Now why do we find in Free Masonry, Marxism, and the
Christian church this mistaken teaching of the equality of all men?
All three are striving more or less for power over the whole earth.
therefore they must necessarily be international. They can never
acknowledge the human ties of race, community, or nation if they do
not wish to give up their own aims.
In spite of this powerful opposition, however, the
race idea goes on gaining ground. The truth gradually prevails. We
need only think of the growing line up of states set for defence
against the destructive influence of the Jews. And also we need to
remember that the immigration laws of many states overseas do not let
Jews or other undesirables into the country.
However, we will not stick to superficialities, but
try to acquire greater clarity regarding this question. For only then
can we understand rightly the fourth point of the program of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party. It states:
Only those who are comrades of our folk can be citizens of the
state. Only those who are of German blood, irrespective of religious
belief, can be comrades of our folk. Consequently no Jews can be
comrades of our folk. "
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Below is an often repeated quote on creationist sites of Hitler, from the book Hitler's tabletalk, which consists of a diary of conversations he had with his clique. It's the one time I've read Hitler use the complete term Natural Selection in stead of just referring to selection. Interestingly he uses the term in direct opposition to Christianity, which makes me think that he specifically wanted to do those things that Christianity forbids. This seems to me a reverse reflection of Christianity, and not an independent point of view separate from Christianity.
(Hitler's tafelgesprekken, 1980, p38)
(translated from Dutch version of Hitler's Tabletalk.)
"10 october 1941, midday
War is returned to it's primitive form. The war of peoples against
peoples has been replaced by a different kind of war - a war for the
possession of big spaces. Originally war was nothing other then a
struggle for pastures. Presently war is nothing but a struggle for the
riches of nature. Thanks to an inherent law these riches belong to
those who conquers them.
The big movement of peoples began from the east. With us ebb sets in,
from west to east.
This is in agreement with the laws of nature. Through the struggle,
the elites are constantly renewed. The law of natural selection
justifies this never ending struggle by letting the strongest win.
Christianity is a rebellion against the law of nature, a protest
against nature. Reasoned logically to it's ultimate end, Christianity
would mean the systematic cultivation of human failure."
regards,
Mohammad Nor Syamsu
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