 As always, as soon as one starts to look at things a little more closely, the story becomes more complex (Richards 2013).  Let us agree that something had to lead to Hitler and that given the racism that infects huge amounts of nineteenth century thinking about humankind—including Darwin’s Descent of Man—one should not give evolutionary theory a knee-jerk absolution. In fact, some early twentieth century writers on war and strife, clearly inspired in some fashion by Darwin, give one great pause for reflection. Listen to the sometime member of the German High Command, General Friedrich von Bernhardi. Darwinism endorses war endorses that which is morally good or acceptable. “Struggle is therefore a universal law of Nature, and the instinct of self-preservation which leads to struggle is acknowledged to be a natural condition of existence. ‘Man is a fighter’” (von Bernhardi 1912, 13). And “might gives the right to occupy or to conquer. Might is at once the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitration of war. War gives a biologically just decision, since its decisions rest on the very nature of things” (ibid., p. 15). Hence “It may be that a growing people cannot win colonies from uncivilized races, and yet the State wishes to retain the surplus population which the mother-country can no longer feed. Then the only course left is to acquire the necessary territory by war.” 