Purchase In Hitler’s Ethic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Richard Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler’s 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. Hitler’s evolutionary 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. Hitler also believed that morality was biologically innate, so he thought that eliminating the “evil” Jews would bring moral progress. Richard Weikart is professor of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus. He has lived in Germany over five years, including one year … Continue reading Hitler’s Ethic