Natural Order and Science

[I_am_not_mafia]

“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world’s greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.”

Richard Weikart,
From Darwin to Hitler:
Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany

Source:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/eugenics

Well, what can I say, he is wrong...

Harris should read The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O Paxton for the process that led to the holocaust.

To summarise, the Nazis were trying to export the Jews and weren't able to. They wanted to export them to Russia. The more countries they conquered the more Jews they had to deal with. Nazis who were in charge of conquered countries also did not want Jews sent to them. Different regions developed their own ways to deal with the Jews including mass murder. There was a cycle of radicalisation between Nazi members and Nazi leaders. Eventually the decision was taken to exterminate them in an organised way.

Harris is trying to paint the Nazi movement as some form of Atheistic ideology when they were largely Catholic.