Austrian doctor Asperger 'actively cooperated' with Nazis, study says

[TomSea]

Austrian doctor Asperger 'actively cooperated' with Nazis, study says
Although Asperger did not join the Nazi party itself he did join affiliated groups and "publicly legitimized race hygiene policies" including forced sterilization.
By REUTERS
April 22, 2018 15:51


VIENNA - Hans Asperger, the Austrian pediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, "actively cooperated" with a Nazi program under which disabled children were killed, an academic paper published on Thursday says.

The article by medical historian Herwig Czech published in the journal Molecular Autism says that Asperger referred severely disabled children to Vienna's notorious Am Spiegelgrund clinic where almost 800 children died under the Nazi program -- many of them by lethal injection or being gassed.

After reviewing archive documents including Asperger's personnel files and patient records, Czech found that although Asperger did not join the Nazi party itself he did join affiliated groups and "publicly legitimized race hygiene policies" including forced sterilization.

Read more at: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Austrian-doctor-Asperger-actively-cooperated-with-Nazis-study-says-552419

I would want more confirmation on this, what if his family denies this? It is still an interesting article.

[dfwgator]

Austrians were even more Nazi than the Germans, after all, Hitler was one of them.