Alexander Tille (April 30, 1866 in Lauenstein – December 16, 1912 in

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) was a German philosopher. He published the first English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's ''

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. He claimed

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were only the delusions held by the weak. Tille felt slums were good, since they could help purge society of the "unfit". He also thought disabled and mentally ill people should be left to starve, with food only given to the "fit".

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Fritz Hellwig Fritz Hellwig (3 August 1912 – 22 July 2017) was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken and turned 100 in August 2012. and died on 22 July 2017 at the age of 104. He died at age 104, being the last ...

: "Alexander Tille." In: Peter Neumann (ed.): ''Saarländische Lebensbilder''. Vol. 4. (1989), . *"Darwinismus und Zeitgeit." ''Zeitschrift für Religions-und Geistesgeschichte'' 14 (1962):143-80. cited by ''The descent of Darwin: the popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914'', Alfred Kelly, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press 1981, , p. 107.

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