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Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna / Edith Sheffer.
"Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler's Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 1683249461
- ISBN: 9781683249467
- Physical Description: 511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Center point large print edition.
- Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Enter the experts -- The clinic's diagnosis -- Nazi psychiatry and social spirit -- Indexing lives -- Fatal theories -- Asperger and the killing system -- Girls and boys -- The daily life of death -- In service to the Volk -- Reckoning. |
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| Subject: | Asperger, Hans. Asperger's syndrome > History. Child psychiatry > History. Child abuse > History. War crimes > History. National socialism > History. World War, 1939-1945. Austria. |
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Asperger's Children : The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler's Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children.
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