By Bruce Walker
Seventy-five years ago, on January 1, 1934, one of the most
insidious laws in human history came into effect in Nazi Germany. The
innocent sounding name was The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased
Offspring. It was the ghastly pinnacle of an unholy theory of
human eugenics. Darwinism – not the Theory of Evolution, per se,
but the sinister notion that natural selection made God superfluous –
liberated man from his obligation to treat fellow men as special creatures in a
divinely ordered universe.
In 1915, Canon McClure in his book, Germany’s War
Inspirers, noted how Germans slid toward eugenics as a replacement of
eugenics for traditional religion. He talks of people openly calling for
eugenics having “strong claims to become an orthodox religious tenet of the
future” and “Eugenics becoming a religious dogma among mankind.” He also
noted that the nihilist Nietzche was a “pioneer of Eugenics.”
In his 1943 book, We Have Seen Evil, Rom Landau notes
that Germany before the First World War showed a nation that was already close
to the brink of spiritual emptiness:
“The antidote to the precariousness of the new present and
the hopelessness of the future was sought by experimenting with unending
sensual thrills – from drink and drugs to every form of sexual excess…The
license in sexual life revealed a sensual depravity that had always been there
but had been kept disguised.”
Margaret Sanger, about this time, had advocated treating
humans no differently than cattle. She was a member of the Socialist
Party in America. Like Hitler and other true socialists, Sanger believed
in the perfectibility of man by man. Inextricably linked to this was an
embrace of reproductive morality in general as simply a plastic concept of
invented principles. This included support of the wholesale practice of
“medical” abortions in New York decades before Roe v. Wade, as described in Suicide
Bent, a 1945 book by David Goldstein.
Like Sanger, the Germans before Hitler who had come to power had
adopted the same sort of looseness and apathy about human reproduction and
procreation. Pierre Vienot, in his 1934 book, Is Germany Finished?
wrote of German society before the Nazis came to power:
“It really represents a moral transformation: the discarding
of the notion of morality in sexual matters…sexual life, especially among the
younger generation, is no longer regarded in itself from the standpoint of
sin…the majority of girls, even in the middle class, look upon themselves as
totally free.”
The same German people who gave Hitler power, long before
that fatal step, repudiated all those values associated with the sacredness of
human life, all those Judeo-Christian morals connected to the idea of man as
made in the image of God, all those divisions of man from beast. It was
an easy step from the irreligious character of pre-Nazi Germany to The Law
for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring.
Many people around the world applauded this forced
sterilization of “Life unworthy of life.” It was such a tantalizingly
simple shift: We, humans, are both animals and gods; some of us are more
animals and others of us are more gods; we, not Providence, make the future;
we, the wisest and the best, will be fruitful and inhabit posterity; they, the
defective and the worst, will be left behind in our manmade evolution to some
manmade Heaven. Why should disease be carried from generation to
generation? If we are farm animals, then there is no reason. The
Nazis, along with all the other socialists and Leftists on the planet, have
always thought of us as just animals.
The Nazis moved, quite logically, along the path of
improving the stock of the human race. In his 1941 book, Education for
Death: The Making of the Nazi, Gregor Ziemer describes the great care given
to the right stock of boys and girls to breed and the forced sterilization of
the wrong stock of boys and girls. This was more than simply Nazi
policy: It was the almost inevitable consequence of a German people which
had long since abandoned all faith in God.
Then quickly followed the most patently horrific aspects of
a latently horrific viewpoint: Why not just kill the Jews? Why
allow Gypsies to exist? What purpose did Slavic people have? If we
are all merely farm animals, one animal must be the farmer. Why not the
German people? Why not the Nazi Party? Once the sanctity of life is
abandoned, there is no trajectory but free fall to ethical oblivion.
Where are we today? Abortion is so commonplace in the
civilized world that only something like postnatal infanticide faintly stirs
our conscience. Assisted suicide, human cloning, and every attainable gap
which once separated us from the rest of Creation has been breached with
delight. We are part of the earth, part of the Animal Kingdom, part of
Mother Earth so worshipped by the Nazis.
Ancient Judaism has a beautiful allegory: When the
dirtiest beggar walks down the darkest alley in the world, he is preceded by a
herald of angels, proclaiming to everything before him: “Make way! Make
way for the image of the Lord!” Christianity believes that
man was so special in the universe that God was born as man, walked as man, and
died as man. This system of fidelity to human life is the only anchor
which we have against the feral mask of nature. God plants, God culls,
God brings forth life. When we reject that truth, we reject our own
souls. After that always comes vast, numb, black evil.
© 2008 Bruce Walker — All Rights Reserved
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Bruce Walker is the author of two books: Sinisterism:
Secular Religion of the Lie, and his recently published book, The
Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.
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