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===[[File:Darwinist.png]] Social Darwinism [[File:Eugen.png]]===
The argument that Nazi ideology was strongly influenced by [[File:Darwinist.png]] [[Social Darwinism|Social Darwinist]] ideas is often found in historical and social science literature. For example, the philosopher and historian [[W:Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] analyzed the historical development from a politically indifferent scientific Darwinism via social Darwinist ethics to racist ideology. Nazism views Darwinian evolution as justification for the belief in the supposed superiority of the Aryan race. Nazi Germany's justification for its aggression was regularly promoted in Nazi propaganda films depicting scenes such as beetles fighting in a lab setting to demonstrate the principles of "survival of the fittest" as depicted in ''Alles Leben ist Kampf'' (English translation: ''All Life is Struggle'').
To Nazism, people with inherited disorders are considered to be “useless eaters” and were killed/sent to camps on sight as they were regarded as "life unworthy of life" (German: ''Lebensunwertes Leben''). Mental disabilities fare mildly better than physical disabilities depending on the severity of the disorder, but it usually ends up the same way even in minor cases.
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