A new study has shed more light on the revelations that Hans Asperger,
the Austrian pediatrician for whom a form of autism is named, had
collaborated with the Nazis and actively assisted in the killing of
disabled children.Published on Wednesday in the journal Molecular Autism
by the medical historian Herwig Czech, the report relies on eight years
of research that included the examination of previously unseen Nazi-era
documents.The
study concludes that though Dr. Asperger was not a member of the Nazi
Party, he had participated in the Third Reich’s child-euthanasia
program, which aimed to establish a “pure” society by eliminating those
deemed a “burden.”
Dr.
Asperger was previously thought to have opposed national socialism and to have
defended
his patients against Nazi “euthanasia”. That story ‘needs to be revised in light of the evidence’, the study revealed. Hans Asperger diagnosed children with ‘autistic psychopathy’ and referred them to the notorious Am Spiegelgrund
clinic in Vienna, where 800 children were murdered
by use of drugs of gas from 1940 to 1945.
Be advised that there is ableism in the second part of source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/world/europe/hans-asperger-nazis.html
The chapter ‘conclusions’ in the study itself is not as complicated to read as you’d expect from a scientific work and can be found here: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0208-6#Sec12
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