The Herero genocide was a systematic campaign of racial extermination that included the use of concentration camps and medical experimentation and is considered the first genocide of the 20th century. Belief in Darwin’s missing links led directly to belief in Darwin’s law of survival of the fittest, which states that the strong eliminate the weak or less worthy of life. Although well documented, this ‘holocaust before the Holocaust’ is rarely linked to Nazi-ism and its connected ideology—scientific racism.
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