Edith Sheffer

Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An impassioned indictment, one that glows with the heat of a prosecution motivated by an ethical imperative. Lisa Appignanesi, New York Review of Books

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 mindsespecially those thought to lack social skillsclaiming 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393609653
• Artikelnr.: 59589575

Autorenporträt

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.