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 UNLESS YOU ARE CALLING the Jewish Virtual Library "antisemitic," you have no right to accuse me of that.  The Jewish Virtual Library being WHAT I CITED in pointing out that the most authoritative record of the Wannsee Conference GAVE NATURAL SELECTION AS THE REASON FOR WIPING OUT JEWS AT THE MEETING WHERE THEY PLANNED THE "FINAL SOLUTION" you really should face the fact that throughout the Nazi record it was given as the motivation for, not only the genocides against Jews but to the mandatory sterilization of "mixed race" people (also discussed in the minutes of the Wannsee conference) and the other genocides, mass murders and forced sterilizations the Nazis carried out.  

Natural selection is exactly what "Darwinism" is.  It is what the word meant since about 1860 when Darwin's main English disciple, Thomas Huxley used the word to mean exactly that, a word which, before then, referred to Erasmus Darwin's theories of evolution but which were eclipsed by that of his grandson. 

Since the minutes were taken by Reinhard Heydrich's aid,  none other than another major figure in carrying out the genocide, Adolf Eichmann,* one of too few who were tried and executed for crimes against humanity, in minutes that were copied and distributed to the other planners of the genocide and to others that high up in the Nazi government AND THERE IS NO RECORD OF ANY OF THE DISAGREEING ON THAT POINT it has to be taken as among the primary motivations of why they did it.   

Contrary to the claim that "Christian antisemitism" had any role in it, there is no mention of religion in the document at all, except for this passage:

The number of Jews given here for foreign countries includes, however, only those Jews who still adhere to the Jewish faith, since some countries still do not have a definition of the term "Jew" according to racial principles.

Which would clearly support the contention that the Nazis didn't consider questions of religion, they, in fact, murdered a number of Christians for being Jews, such as St. Edith Stein.  For them, especially as a large number of them rejected religion and, especially Christianity, it was a question of "race," racial competition in a "struggle for life" and exactly in the same terms that Darwin presented as natural selection.  I've been through this over and over again, showing how in their propaganda the Nazis used examples directly from Darwin's writing to promote their racist eugenic ideology, I've presented examples from the infamous textbook by Fischer, Baur and Lenz which we know Hitler and Hess had and read while they were in jail after the beer hall putsch, I've presented the too little studied and condemned collaboration of people like Karl Pearson and Leonard Darwin with Nazi scientists, including at least one of that trio, Pearson providing arguments for the alleged danger of Russian and Polish Jews in Western European countries which were used in that book that informed Hitler and Hess and other Nazis and claiming that enormous progress was the product of a Darwinian race war.  And I've presented the precedents for all of that from the very hand of Charles Darwin and in his colleagues whose point of view he supported as representing his own thoughts Francis Galton's (Pearson's teacher and patron) and, most importantly for that connection, Ernst Haeckel (over many, many posts I've written on that connection and the current campaign to rehabilitate the proto-Nazi Haeckel flowing from a dishonest Darwinist from the University of Chicago).  

I will apologize for so many links to what I've written, though they are a small sample of the posts I've done on this topic, I do so to prove that before I say anything about it I look at the primary documentation and if I rarely have to resort to secondary documents, such as I had to when I wrote about Wilhelm Schallmeyer, I note that and apologize for it. 

I can't say that doing that research was at all pleasant or gratifying or, for that matter, what I expected to find when I started looking into these questions. I started out believing the post WWII lie, which I learned in high school and after, was true.  But look into it I did and I have presented what I found in exhaustive detail, with full primary documentation, from the words of the people themselves AND NOT IN SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH HAND IDEOLOGICAL LIES, such as Darwin's champions typically traffic in.  They have to because the primary documentation proves their post-WWII lie that he had no connection to the crimes of the Nazis is exactly that, a lie, something which I found absolutely no one before WWII claimed INCLUDING HIS OWN SON LEONARD DARWIN.  On the eve of the war starting in 1939, he, himself linked his father's work to the then German government's eugenics programs about as strongly as anyone could, citing another link through Wilhelm Schallmeyer and Alfred Ploetz (see the link above).   

* As to Adolf Eichmann's religious orientation, I found this interesting old article about a Canadian evangelical minister who tried to save his soul even as he said he thought Eichmann should hang for what he did.

 "Jewish Fables." Canadian-born Evangelist Hull, 62, seems oddly matched to his spiritual charge. A former Winnipeg salesman on the Manitoba grain exchange, Hull received "a very real personal call from God to move to Jerusalem" while attending services one night at Winnipeg's Zion Apostolic Church. He settled down in Palestine in 1935, following his ordination to the ministry. A strong believer in Israeli independence, Hull has long enjoyed the favor of Israel's government, and after Eichmann's conviction Hull offered his services as a spiritual counselor. Eichmann, who had been brought up in Austria's Evangelical Church, refused at first, agreed to one meeting on the advice of Lawyer Robert Servatius, and now seems to welcome Hull's visits.

To bring Eichmann to the point where "God can reach his heart," Hull has tried to make Eichmann see that God's judgment of his soul is more important than the Israeli court's judgment of his body. At their first conference last month, Hull asked Eichmann to turn in his Bible to a text in Ecclesiastes. Eichmann hesitated. "Isn't that in the Old Testament?" he asked. When Hull said it was, Eichmann answered: "I won't read it. I don't believe in Jewish stories and fables." Patiently, Hull explained: "I've laid out a plan of study for you to consider that your soul might be saved, and if you don't follow the plan I can't help you. The Bible is one book. Both Old and New Testaments were written by Jews, and our early church was composed of Jews." Eichmann thought for a moment, then turned to the chapter.

A Nazi God. Eichmann so far seems to have accepted the idea that he has a soul that will be judged by God, and that this soul can be saved before death. But he obstinately insists that as a helpless tool of Adolf Hitler he was not fully responsible for his crimes, does not yet agree with Hull that faith in Christ is the way to salvation, speaks of a creator that Hull feels is a Nazi God of power and force, not a God of love. "So far we are not talking about the same God," says Hull.

No, I don't imagine they were no matter how inconvenient that is for your bigotry.  I don't know much about whatever is known about the religious opinions of Heydrich except I will note that the Jewish Virtual Library says he got his antisemitism from his areligious father and school mates, not from his religious mother. 

Since someone wanted me to comment on a current obsession of his, I have no idea who Demi Lovato is and have no opinion about that.  Nor do I care that he's obsessed with trans people.  I would imagine the Nazis wouldn't like them either, as the Republican-fascists don't.

Update:  Looking through my notes, I found a mention of this which certainly isn't atypical of the mindset of the high ranking Nazis, Heinrich Himmler, talking about what he said at Heydrich's funeral:

We will have to deal with Christianity in a tougher way than hitherto. We must settle accounts with this Christianity, this greatest of plagues that could have happened to us in our history, which has weakened us in every conflict. If our generation does not do it then it would I think drag on for a long time. We must overcome it within ourselves. Today at Heydrich's funeral I intentionally expressed in my oration from my deepest conviction a belief in God, a belief in fate, in the ancient one as I called him—that is the old Germanic word: Wralda. We shall once again have to find a new scale of values for our people: the scale of the macrocosm and the microcosm, the starry sky above us and the world in us, the world that we see in the microscope. The essence of these megalomaniacs, these Christians who talk of men ruling this world, must stop and be put back in its proper proportion. Man is nothing special at all. He is an insignificant part of this earth. If a big thunderstorm comes, he can do nothing about it. He cannot even predict it. He has no idea how a fly is constructed—however unpleasant, it is a miracle—or how a blossom is constructed. He must once again look with deep reverence into this world. Then he will acquire the right sense of proportion about what is above us, about how we are woven into this cycle.

Then, on a different plane, something else must happen: we must once again be rooted in our ancestors and grandchildren, in this eternal chain and eternal sequence. [ . . . ] By rooting our people in a deep ideological awareness of ancestors and grandchildren we must once more persuade them that they must have sons. We can do a very great deal. But everything that we do must be justifiable vis-à-vis the clan, our ancestors. If we do not secure this moral foundation which is the deepest and best because the most natural, we will not be able to overcome Christianity on this plane and create the Germanic Reich which will be a blessing for the earth. That is our mission as a nation on this earth. For thousands of years it has been the mission of this blond race to rule the earth and again and again to bring it happiness and culture.