Biography of hans asperger jewish
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician....
Hans Asperger, the namesake of Asperger's Syndrome, was an Austrian pediatrician and medical professional who cooperated with the Nazi's eugenics program.
The Truth about Hans Asperger's Nazi Collusion
Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer. W. W. Norton ()
The Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger has long been recognized as a pioneer in the study of autism.
He was even seen as a hero, saving children with the condition from the Nazi killing programme by emphasizing their intelligence. However, it is now indisputable that Asperger collaborated in the murder of children with disabilities under the Third Reich.
Historian Herwig Czech fully documented this in the April issue of Molecular Autism (a journal I co-edit).
Now, historian Edith Sheffer’s remarkable book Asperger’s Children builds on Czech’s study with her own original scholarship. She makes a compelling case that the foundational ideas of autism emerged in a society that strove for the opposite of neurodiversity.
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