What we must learn from Asperger exposé

The late Lorna Wing, above, had Hans Asperger translated long before the world knew of his involvement in the Nazis’ euthanasia programme, says Uta Frith.It 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).Neither Lorna Wing, the instigator of the translation, nor I believed he was part of the Nazi machinery of death.