A photograph of the Nazi sympathizer Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger's syndrome is named.

Was Asperger a bad guy? Did he have Asperger’s?

Startling new evidence shows that Hans Asperger, after whom Asperger’s syndrome is named, was a Nazi sympathiser. He referred mentally handicapped children to a clinic where many were eventually killed as part of the Nazi’s programme of racial purity.  The evidence is presented in a paper published in April 2018 in the journal Molecular Autism…