From Darwin to Hitler

"If you read the German scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many of them were promoting racism, and even racial extermination, extinction of races. They were promoting the gaining of living space. They were promoting competition. The things that we know of as Social Darwinism, these were things being promoted by Charles Darwin himself to some degree, and by many other leading biologists."

My guest on the program today is Historian Dr. Richard Weikart

DR. RICHARD WEIKART, professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, and expert on the impact, from the late 1800s through the Nazi period, of Social Darwinism in Germany.