The above image was initially widely distributed World War I poster portraying Germany as a gorilla-like brute making off with a woman meant to represent Belgium. This was a popular image during that time because it was reminiscent power and gorillas were associated with race and sexual voraciousness. However, following World War I it helped to aid the antievolution fervor as many antievolutionists merged evolution with Social Darwinism. In the 1920’s the antievolutionists associated German science with evolution and natural selection with eugenic movement and German Doctrine “might makes right”.
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