Dr. Hans Asperger’s Complicity in Nazi Mass Murder of Disabled Children

“Child killing was the Reich’s first system of mass murder,” –Edith Sheffer, author of Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna. The book Asperger’s Children offers a crucial and unsettling re-evaluation of Dr. Hans Asperger’s legacy. The book reveals that Asperger’s work on autism was deeply influenced by the horrific racial policies of […]