"Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna"
Complete waste of time and energy.
Aspergers has already been officially removed from the medical book in favor of ASD so from a technical point of view people should just say Autism.
Not that I have anything against someone using either Autism or Aspergers anyway.
It’s highly likely even the term Autism or ASD will be removed in the future too in favor of a more exact subtype.
It’s easy to be moralistic against those living in a different time or place.
Tens of millions lived under the Nazi’s at the time and had to continue their jobs and earn a living. They had no advanced knowledge of the course of the war or occupation.
If you was living in Austria back then and had known France had just fallen along with practically all of Europe, the US wasn’t interested and funded both sides Stalin’s Russia had made a non aggression pact with Hitler and there was no one else, you would be forgiven for thinking this was permanent and you either got on with life, starved on the streets or face a firing squad for rebelling.
I’ve not read historical details of Hans Aspergers as a person.
I don’t know the details of what Aspergers cooperation with Nazi’s was but unless he was a paid up member of the Nazi party or directly responsible for killing kids we shouldn’t be too judgmental on an ordinary psychiatrist doing his job.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man."
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