Asperger's Children - The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
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 how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. As the Nazi regime slaughtered millions across Europe...
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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.
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In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he offered care to children he deemed promising, he prescribed harsh institutionalisation and even transfer to one of the Reich's killing centres, for children with greater disabilities. With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer reveals the heart-breaking voices and experiences of many of these children, whilst illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloguing people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality and biological defects-labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination.
Autoren-Porträt von Edith Sheffer
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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- Autor: Edith Sheffer
- 2020, 320 Seiten, 15 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,2 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB)
- Verlag: Norton
- ISBN-10: 0393357791
- ISBN-13: 9780393357790
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2020
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