Biological Science and the Roots of Nazism

Abstract

New Right, Elements for a European Civilization, offers its readers the opportunity to purchase the works of Y. Christen, The Hour of Sociobiology, Marx and Darwin, and The Darwin Dossier, and the work of H. J. Eysenck, Human Inequality. The review Nouvelle Ecole, a rightist journal, devotes a special issue (no. 38) to and Society, and the rightist publishing firm of Pl?n offers the work of A. Griotteral, The Immigrants: The Shock, which affirms that a multicultural will be, in fact, a negation of France and offers a plan for a repatriation of the foreigners. Even tiny Luxembourg is concerned: in 1982 the president of the government observed that if there is a foreign influx to be added to the children of foreign parents who grow to maturity and have chil dren of their own, Luxembourg will become something of a Mediterra nean nation. The roots of ethnocentrism, na tionalism, racism, and xenophobia remain deep in Europe, and al though anti-semitism is in bad taste as a consequence of World War II, it too remains alive. What can the history of science, especially the history of human biology and the new science of sociobiology, tell us about the place of these social (or perhaps natural) phenomena? Since the pioneering study of the American histori an Richard Hofstadter on Social Darwinism in American

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