Correct answer: C. Darwin explained biological change while Nazis distorted it into racist politics
Explanation: The governing historical distinction is between a scientific explanation of biological change and a political ideology that misappropriates selected ideas. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection addressed how populations change over generations; it did not establish a hierarchy of human races or prescribe state persecution. Nazi racism falsely claimed that humanity was divided into biologically superior and inferior groups and used such claims to justify exclusion, persecution and mass murder. Therefore option C is correct. Options A and B wrongly treat the two positions as identical, while D is false because Lebensraum was a Nazi expansionist policy, not a policy created by Darwin.