“Certainly, many of Hamburger’s protégés went on to be Nazi enthusiasts and leaders in the euthanasia program,” Sheffer writes. As Sheffer makes clear, Asperger would have known that such decisions were probable death sentences. Sheffer says that Asperger was involved in the transfer of at least 44 children from his clinic to Spiegelgrund. Under the brutal boundaries drawn by the Nazi regime, both could be true. “It can be misleading to classify people too neatly,” Sheffer writes, trying to explain where historians draw the lines of culpability.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2018 16:46 UTC