Richard Weikart

Richard Weikart, PhD, is a Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. He is author of multiple books examining the historical impact of Social Darwinism and other ideologies, including From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, and The Death of Humanity. Weikart holds a PhD in modern European history from the University of Iowa. British historian Sir Richard Evans of Cambridge University called Weikart’s book From Darwin to Hitler an “outstanding book [that] shows in sober and convincing detail how… thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society by the time of the First World War, in which the supposed good of the race was applied as the sole criterion of public policy and ‘racial hygiene’.”