FROM AN UPDATE TO A POST I DID proving that the Nazi's scientific basis of their murder of Jews had the the fingerprints of Darwinism all over it. From a quick update of that post:
I had a few minutes as the Republicans were lying in the House
Impeachment debate, so I looked up online to find out if I could find
Nazi science citing Karl Pearson's 1925 paper in which, using Darwinian
arguments, he claimed the scientific determination of the inferiority of
Polish and Russian Jews and the catastrophic results if they were
allowed to live in Britain, and, wouldn't you know, I found it cited by
no other than the trio of scientists who wrote the one book on biology
we know Hitler was reading as he was codifying his theory.
I
don't have time to find my program for easily typing out German and
doing it so I'm copying from the automated text generation at
Archive.org for Menschliche Auslese und Rassenhygiene - Band 2 (1932)
Die Einwanderung fremder Rassenelemente nach England
sucht man natürlich möglichst zu verhindern. In Betracht kommt
hier hauptsächlich die Einwanderung von Ostjuden; man scheut
sich aber, diese bloß wegen ihrer Rassenfremdheit als uner-
wünscht zu bezeichnen. Pearson 1 ) hat daher versucht, durch
Untersuchungen an ostjüdischen Kindern zu zeigen, daß diese un-
günstiger veranlagt seien als die Kinder angelsächsischer Abstam-
mung; die Judenmädchen sollen danach auch intellektuell unter
dem Durchschnitt der englischen Bevölkerung stehen, was indes-
sen nicht gerade überzeugend ist. Jedenfalls aber hat Pearson
recht, wenn er sich auf den Standpunkt stellt, daß nur die Zu-
lassung von solchen Einwanderern in ein dichtbevölkertes Land
ratsam sei, die im Vergleich mit der eingesessenen Bevölkerung
überdurchschnittlich veranlagt seien.
Für Deutschland ist das Problem der östlichen Einwanderung . . noch brennender.
*) Pearson, K. und Moul, M. The problem of allen Immigration
into Great Britain etc. Annais of Eugenics. Bd. i. H. i. und 2. 1925. S. 5 ff
Imperfect as the transfer may be, if you can read that without being chilled, you are a Nazi.
I'll
warn you that the Google translation of this is likely deceptive,
though if you continue with it onto the next page, it confirms that the conventional British Darwinism of Karl Pearson, seven short years
later, directly informed Nazi eugenics on the "Jewish Question"
especially in regard to the Jews the Nazis first targeted for genocide,
as part of their "Problem der östlichen Einwanderung," that they
considered "noch brennender" their elucidation of their scientific
conclusions dragging in exported American anti-Black racism as well as
"eastern Jews". I wouldn't make too much of their claim that their
warning off allowing them to "mix" with native German Jews as
exculpation. The SS and the Einsaztz Gruppen found that their trained
mass murderers found it easier to murder Jews who didn't appear to be
too German, but they overcame that feeling rather fast.
Get back to me when you can find any Jewish person -- particularly one who lost a loved one in the Holocaust -- has blamed the Nazi regime on Darwin.
ReplyDeleteOkay, make that five Jews, on the theory that if you get them together, you'll have two hundred different opinions. :-)