Edith Sheffer - Aspergers Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
b'Show #213 | Guest: Dr. Edith Sheffer | Show Summary: Hans Asperger, for whom Asperger syndrome was named, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. Prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer\\u2019s new book, Asperger\\u2019s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna, exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler\\u2019s Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children. Dr. 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. Her prize-winning book Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain challenges the moral myth of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War\\u2019s central symbol \\u2014 revealing how the Iron Curtain was not simply imposed by Communism, but emerged from the everyday actions of ordinary people.'