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Scientific Racism in Germany It was primarily in Germany, however, where racist science and scientific anti-Semitism took root. In a book entitled Darwin, Deutschland und die Juden, the author demanded to take into account "the findings of the Darwinian doctrine" and stated that "a struggle for survival was taking place between a productive GermanoAryan race and parasitary Semites, thus promulgation of an anti-Judaic legislation was scientifically justified" (Beta, 1876, p. 11 ). Eugenics had become a respectable branch …

…was an old people of Turanian race, hence not better than the Turks and Lapons" (see Poliakov, 1987, p. 351). He likened Jews to bacilIus and trichinae and said that one should not negotiate with them, but exterminate them. Hitler reformulated this statement in 1942: "The war that we wage is of the same nature as the one which Pasteur and Koch did a century ago." Before Hitler, from Thomas Carlyle to Thomas Mann, Lagarde had many admirers.