Asperger, the Nazis and the children – the history of the birth of a diagnosis 16.05.2019: Essay - Hans Asperger has been portrayed as an opponent of the Nazi regime under which he served.

"Medicine was nazified, but in many ways Nazism was also medicalised. After the Anschluss in 1938, the Nazi & anatomist Eduard Pernkopf was appointed new dean of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna. He fired nearly 80% of the faculty's staff" "of whom were Jews"

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