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Hitler’s Ethic

The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

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  1. Richard Weikart
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 1-16

  3. Hitler as Moral Crusader and Liar

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 17-29

  4. The Cult of Evolutionary Progress

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 31-54

  5. Racial Struggle

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 55-84

  6. Morally Upright Aryans and Immoral Jews

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 85-99

  7. Hitler’s Socialism: Building the People’s Community

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 101-120

  8. Sexual Morality and Population Expansion

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 121-135

  9. Controlling Reproduction to Improve the Human Species

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 137-157

  10. The Struggle for Living Space: War and Expansionism

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 159-178

  11. Justifying Murder and Genocide

    • Richard Weikart
    Pages 179-195

  12. Conclusion

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    Pages 197-203

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-254
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In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race.

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'There have been many attempts to provide the key to Hitler's world of ideas but Richard Weikart has succeeded in revealing what must be the central element in any understanding of Hitler's world view. The terrible paradox at the heart of the Third Reich, that biological utopia could only be created by intense physical suffering and violence, now has a proper explanation. What seemed to others bizarrely immoral appeared to Hitler an honourable duty.' - Richard Overy, Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK

About the author

RICHARD WEIKART Professor of Modern European History at California State University, Stanislaus, USA. He has published three previous books, including From Darwin to Hitler and his prize-winning dissertation, Socialist Darwinism. He has also published numerous essays on social Darwinism in anthologies and leading journals, such as German Studies Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Isis.

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