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The principal arguments of historians who deny a meaningful connection between Haeckel and Nazism are that Haeckel's ideas were very common at the time, that Nazis were much more strongly influenced by other thinkers, and that Haeckel is properly classified as a 19th-century German liberal, rather than a forerunner to Nazism.
Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League, the dissertation he had produced at the University of Chicago two years before. That book argued that Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), the great champion of Darwinism in Germany, had special responsibility for contributing to Nazi extermination biology.
Weikart’s thesis is that “no. matter how crooked the road was from Darwin to Hitler, clearly Darwinism and eugenics. smoothed the path for Nazi ideology, especially for the Nazi stress on expansion, war, racial struggle, and racial extermination.”9 In Weikart’s account, Haeckel simply packed.
As we discover in Haeckel’s Embryos, German biologist Ernst Haeckel included illustrations of the embryological stages of vertebrates in a series of books published between 1868 and 1908....
character of Haeckel’s ideas about race, especially his alleged anti-Semitic doctrine, and the role of those ideas in the Nazi program. First, however, I would like to place his conceptions in the context of 19th-century racial thinking. A Brief Survey of European Racial Theories before Haeckel Haeckel, of course, was hardly alone in ...
biogenetic law. evolution. heredity. Ernst Haeckel (born Feb. 16, 1834, Potsdam, Prussia [Germany]—died Aug. 9, 1919, Jena, Ger.) was a German zoologist and evolutionist who was a strong proponent of Darwinism and who proposed new notions of the evolutionary descent of human beings.
He was even regarded as complicit in Nazi biology later on, but, in fact, despite isolated attempts to use his fame to support Nazi ideology, his doctrine was seen by the Nazis as unsuitable for their purposes [19, 55, 62].
