World War Two and ASD Essay Help

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So I'm trying to gather info on how people with autism were treated during WWII in order to help bolster my thesis that the war crippled autism research by forcing doctors like Hans Asperger to bury or destroy their work in order to protect their research subjects. I think I've managed to find some credible online sources, but I figured perhaps you guys could further help me out.

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I'm using MLA to write the essay, Wikipedia's off-limits, although I can check the sources for the article(did that on ASD, didn't find anything useful) and I've been looking into Aktion T4, which was a euthanasia program the Nazis did that involved the killing of the handicapped and mentally ill. I found a Livejournal called Autism Memorial that's given me some info, but I'm not sure that would be considered a credible source.

Steve Sielbermen in his new book "Neurotribes The Lagacy of Autism" delves heavily into that subject.