istorijski fragmenti

Weird Series of Maps: If The Roman Empire was a TV Series. Kinda Cure History Humor. Source: https://t.co/NZcEYeELpW pic.twitter.com/kb8DFXtT67

— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) 03. април 2018.

Hans Asperger aided and supported Nazi programme, study says
Eight-year study finds pioneer of paediatrics assisted in Third Reich’s euthanasia programme

Kate Connolly in Berlin
Thu 19 Apr 2018 01.00 BST   Last modified on Thu 19 Apr 2018 10.05 BST  





The research into Dr Hans Asperger was conducted by Herwig Czech at Vienna’s Medical University.  
The Austrian doctor after whom Asperger syndrome is named was an active participant in the Nazi regime, assisting in the Third Reich’s euthanasia programme and supporting the concept of racial hygiene by deeming certain children unworthy to live, according to a study by a medical historian.


Herwig Czech, from Vienna’s Medical University, has made the claim in an academic paper published in the open access journal Molecular Autism, following eight years of research into the paediatrician Hans Asperger.
Asperger is hailed as a pioneer in the field of child psychiatry and paediatrics, particularly for his groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of Asperger syndrome and the autism spectrum.

But by unearthing previously untouched documents from state archives, including Asperger’s personnel files and patient case records, Czech has revealed a scientist who allied himself so closely with the Nazi ideology that he frequently referred children to the Am Spiegelgrund clinic, which was set up as a collecting point for children who failed to conform to the regime’s criteria of “worthy to live”.

Nearly 800 children died at the clinic between 1940 and 1945, many of whom were murdered under the notorious child euthanasia scheme.

In a joint statement, the editors of Molecular Autism – Simon Baron-Cohen, Ami Klin, Steve Silberman and Joseph Buxbaum – said they welcomed the fact that Czech’s “meticulous research” had finally thrown light on decades of scepticism about Asperger’s claims that he had taken a caring approach to his patients.

“The degree of Asperger’s involvement in the targeting of Vienna’s most vulnerable children has remained an open and vexing question in autism research for a long time,” they wrote in a joint statement.

At the time the term Asperger syndrome was first coined in London in 1981, by Dr Lorna Wing, they added, “She and we as scientists and clinicians, as well as the broader autism community, were unaware of Hans Asperger’s close alliance with, and support of, the Nazi programme of compulsory sterilisation and euthanasia.”

Among Czech’s findings is a photo of the distraught face of Herta Schreiber, who suffered from encephalitis and died of pneumonia three months after her admittance to Spiegelgrund, on Asperger’s orders, a day after her third birthday.

Asperger ordered her transfer because “she must be an unbearable burden to her mother” and she was deemed incurable. A specimen of Herta’s brain, found in a preparation jar in the basement of the clinic in the late 1990s, was buried in 2002, Czech said.

There was no evidence that Asperger deliberately targeted for euthanasia the patients with distinct psychological characteristics he had called “autistic psychopaths”, under the diagnosis for which he became famous, said Czech. But his diagnoses proved burdensome for many of his patients, even years after the collapse of the Nazi regime. Asperger continued working as a doctor for more than three decades.

Neither, said Czech, was there evidence of the benevolent attitude towards his patients that Asperger and others later boasted of. Czech also found a distinct lack of evidence of Asperger’s self-coined “pedagogic optimism”, according to which some could be treated or cured.

Asperger did take considerable pride in his “Heilpädagogik” – therapeutic pedagogy – which promoted the popular idea among his colleagues and Nazi leaders at a time of labour shortages that in certain cases people with autism made excellent soldiers and reliable workers. But Asperger also wrote about the need to “carry out restrictive measures” against patients deemed to be incurable and with hereditary conditions “out of a sense of great responsibility” towards the German race.
...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/hans-asperger-aided-and-supported-nazi-programme-study-says

Communist robot dreams
Tech flourished in communist Bulgaria and so did a body of science fiction asking vital philosophical questions

https://aeon.co/essays/how-communist-bulgaria-became-a-leader-in-tech-and-sci-fi

bruno sulak wrote:odakle je ova genijalnost? inace je jakoviti jugo komuniste crtao kao pravoslavne svestenike sa zvezdom umesto krsta (koji naravno ugnjetavaju jadne katolike).

Sotir wrote:

bruno sulak wrote:odakle je ova genijalnost? inace je jakoviti jugo komuniste crtao kao pravoslavne svestenike sa zvezdom umesto krsta (koji naravno ugnjetavaju jadne katolike).

Ко ти је тај Јаковити?

UNDER PRUSSIA
PUSHING DOWN ON ME
PUSHING DOWN ON YOU pic.twitter.com/MWO1GdTlDN

— Aaron Schwartzbaum (@aaron_schwa) May 3, 2018

WHY CAN'T WE GIVE OURSELVES
ONE MORE FRANCE? pic.twitter.com/Gfs1LYmscG

— Aaron Schwartzbaum (@aaron_schwa) May 3, 2018