What we must learn from Asperger exposé | Letters

Uta Frith and Sahil Singh Gujral respond to revelations of Hans Asperger’s links to the Nazi euthanasia programmeIt has taken me a while to digest Herwig Czech’s deeply upsetting information about Hans Asperger (Revealed: how Doctor Asperger aided the Nazi project, 19 April).When, in 1991, I translated Asperger’s seminal 1944 paper on “Autistic psychopathy in childhood”, none of this was known. Neither Lorna Wing, the instigator of the translation, nor I believed he