Is eugenics the logical result of Darwinism?

Well Nazi race idea come from Gobineau who published before Darwin.Eugenics had its own popularity - and I would suggest that it appealed to Nazis because of the link to their ideas of racial superiority.As for the persecution of Jews and homosexuals, that has even less to do with evolution than it has to do with Christianity.

William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has a chapter on "The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich". It discusses the influence on Hitler's thinking of Gobineau, Nietzsche, Chamberlain, and even Wagner. I can't say for sure that Darwin isn't in the book (~1500 pages) but he isn't in the Index or the Bibliography, and neither is "evolution".

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People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.

Here's a passage from Mein Kampf:"Naure herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless. She diminishes, not the power of procreation as such, but the conservation of the procreated, by exposing them to hard trials and deprivations with the result that all those who are less strong and less healthy are forced back into the womb of the eternal unknown. Those whom she permits to survive the inclemency of existence are a thousandfold tested, hardened, and well adapted to procreate in turn, in order that the process of thoroughgoing selection may begin again from the beginning. By thus brutally proceeding against the individual and immediately calling him back to herself as soon as he shows himself unequal to the storm of life, she keeps the race and species strong, in fact, raises them to the highest accomplishments."Is this not very remindful of natural selection?Biblio. info:Translator Ralph Mannheim. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971., p. 131.

It sounds like natural selection - but there's no hint of evolution as such. It talks of keeping a species strong - not producing new species. I'm pretty sure that it is consistent with pre-Darwianin ideas of natural selection.See:
Darwin's precursors and influences: 4. Natural selection
And the preceding section has a little more.

Let me slightly adjust what I stated before, which was that there might be a connection between Nazism and TOE. By TOE I mean a theory of evolution, not necessarily the modern version of TOE.

Yes it is, but people have known about natural selection as long as there have been people.Eugenics in general - the "weeding out" of the sick, etc. - is an attempt to help nature along (assuming that we know the direction nature is going).Hitler's exterminations, on the other hand, went against natural selection by killing strong Jews, etc. as well as weak. By arbitrarily killing those he percieved as being weaker, he actually weakened the gene pool instead of strengthening it.The topic is: Is eugenics the logical result of Darwinism? I say, no it is not. The logical result of Darwinism is: let nature decide.

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People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.

Well obviously your quote doesn't help you. It corresponds well with non-evolutionary ideas of natural selection, not pre-Darwinain theories of evolution.

Let me see if I can get through Mein Kampf; if I find something else that relates, I'll let you know.I'm not so sure what's stated here is "non-evolutionary."

Well perhaps you can investigate Blyth's version of natural selection and explain how the version in Mein Kampf is evolutionary where Blyth's is not.

From Mein Kampf:

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It is possible, Jar, that Hitler could believe in evolution and God at the same time. I noted what you quoted when I read it, and I do not think I am "quote-mining."I'm a little offended by that remark, because I am trying to be objective.You probably don't believe me, but it's true.

Well, I believe in God and Evolution so I see no reason that wouldn't be true for most folk.But I don't believe you want to go down that path since there is a near unending stream of quotes from Hitler and his government justifying his actions on Christian beliefs.

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I see no mention of Jesus Christ.Wouldn't it be necessary to at least mention Him if one was a Christian?

Not always. Consider this one: Shall I continue?

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Can I hear something about Jesus Christ? And how he is Hitler's Lord and Savior?You got that?