Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer, Edith
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer, Edith

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

In the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers...
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Author: Edith Sheffer
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Language: English
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer, Edith

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

$23.98
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer, Edith

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

$23.98
Author: Edith Sheffer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across Europe during World War Two, it sorted people according to race, religion, behavior, and physical condition. Nazi psychiatrists targeted children with different kinds of minds--especially those thought to lack social skills--claiming the Reich had no place for them. Hans Asperger and his colleagues endeavored to mold certain "autistic" children into productive citizens, while transferring others to Spiegelgrund, one of the Reich's deadliest child killing centers. In this unflinching history, Sheffer exposes Asperger's complicity in the murderous policies of the Third Reich.



Author: Edith Sheffer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/10/2020
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780393357790

About the Author
Sheffer, Edith: - Edith Sheffer is a historian of Germany and central Europe, and a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the prize-winning Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain.
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