This book takes a fresh look at Germanys most influential Nazi leaders examining their backgrounds education and convictions. It provides compelling evidence that the rising influence of Darwinism eugenics and race theory in early-twentieth century society set the foundation for the Nazi pursuit of engineering a German master race-and exterminating European Jews Gypsies Blacks most Slavs and the Christian religion in the ensuing madness of the Holocaust of World War II. The effect of social Darw