Wells was also heavily into eugenics. His first non-fiction best seller was "Anticipations" (Wells, H.G., Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought, Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1902; reprinted by Dover, Mineola, NY, 1999. ) where he defends an extreme program of negative eugenics ('mercy killing of the unfit').
Gardner, in the introduction to the 1999 edition, says:
‘Wells’ statements about inferior races, and the use of killing as a tool to weed out the unfit, come perilously close to Hitler’s efforts to breed a superior Aryan race, and to "solve the Jewish question" with the aid of gas chambers.’(Gardner, M., Introduction in: Wells, H.G., Anticipations, Dover, Mineola, NY, p. iii, 1999.)
Just my $0.02
Frank