Austrian paediatrician Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, had reportedly “actively cooperated” with the Nazi euthanasia program.
Findings about Dr Asperger were published on Wednesday in the journal of Molecular Autism after eight years of research which included the examination of previously unseen Nazi-era documents.
Herwig Czech, a historian of medicine at the Medical University of Vienna reported that Asperger recommended the transfer of two girls who later perished, to the notorious Spiegelgrund facility inside Vienna’s Steinhof psychiatric hospital where reportedly 800 children had been killed.