January 27th:
Holocaust Rememberance Day Why did the Holocaust happen? A holocaust such as the one known with a capital H does not happen overnight. Instead, I’d say that this is a perfect example of the boiling frog phenomenon. First came Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859 that popularized eugenics. Darwin presented the theory of Darwinism: organisms will adapt to their environment so that, in the end, only the traits most suitable for life and survival will remain. The theory was then grossly oversimplified and…
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