Hitler's ethic : the Nazi pursuit of evolutionary progress / Richard Weikart.

  • Weikart, Richard, 1958-
Date:
2009
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Description

In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitlers 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. This ethic underlay or influenced almost every major feature of Nazi policy: eugenics (i.e., measures to improve human heredity, including compulsory sterilization), euthanasia, racism, population expansion, offensive warfare, and racial extermination. - Publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Physical description

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition

1st ed.

Contents

Hitler as moral crusader and liar -- The cult of evolutionary progress -- Racial struggle -- Morally upright Aryans and immoral Jews -- Hitler's socialism : building the people's community -- Sexual morality and population expansion -- Controlling reproduction to improve the human species -- The struggle for living space : war and expansionism -- Justifying murder and genocide.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JL.37.AA9
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0230618073
  • 9780230618077