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From: John Keller on 29 Dec 2005 23:40
Was Hans Asperger a Nazi Party member? He was a doctor at the University of
Vienna during the Third Reich. Is it likely a pediatrician could be able to
operate effectively without being an NSDAP member? I believe it was
required that doctors be members of the Reich Physicians' Chamber
(Reichs?rztekammer), but I'm not sure if you had to be a party member to be
a member of that.



From: Michael on 30 Dec 2005 00:57
i'm not sure about asperger, but are you the John Keller of the Aryan
Peoples' Press. you used to sign your writing like that.

From: Mike Stanton on 30 Dec 2005 06:09
On 29 Dec 2005 21:57:20 -0800, "Michael" <michael.luger(a)daterra.ab.ca>
wrote

>i'm not sure about asperger, but are you the John Keller of the Aryan
>Peoples' Press. you used to sign your writing like that.

Next year is International Asperger Year to mark the 100th anniversary
of his birth. So we can expect all sorts of weirdoes to try and muscle
in on the event. But, as I wrote in my book,

'Kanner was the first to publish a paper describing Autism in 1943.
Asperger's paper from 1944 was largely ignored as he published in
German from within the Third Reich. But he was no nazi. Today we may
detect a tendency in his writing to paint too positive a picture of
potential outcomes for people with Autism. He used the phrase
"autistic intelligence" approvingly as an explanation for genius.
Frith (1989) suggests that this "must be seen in the light of his
fervent belief in the powers of education." It should also be seen in
the light of his desire to save his patients from the gas chambers
that awaited all deemed defective by the nazi state.' (Stanton 2000
p24)

References
Uta Frith (ed.): Autism and Asperger Syndrome (Cambridge University
Press, 1991)
Mike Stanton: Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism; A
Parent's Guide for Professionals. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000)
--
mike stanton
serving neither god nor mammon on the lonely planet.
http://mikestantonsautism.blogspot.com
From: Michael on 30 Dec 2005 10:30
thanks for the dr asperger update; as far as this persons motives are
concerned however, i'm not completely satisfied with your birthday
party tie in. :)

i've thought about it a bit, and have concluded that 'his' kind is
always lurking around, waiting for any sign that other individuals
around him, in this case newsgroups, are as disappointed with their lot
as he with his.

there's no telling how long he's been monitoring this newsgroup, but
something new, some new recent round of bitching, moaning and
complaining has caught his interest, and so, he's here to feed on it,
and convert it to his favorite of all foods; hate.

yuk.

this of course is not great news, or commentary on the state of the
postings here at alt.support.autism

michael

From: neral on 30 Dec 2005 10:43
Mike Stanton wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2005 21:57:20 -0800, "Michael" <michael.luger(a)daterra.ab.ca>
> wrote
>
>> i'm not sure about asperger, but are you the John Keller of the Aryan
>> Peoples' Press. you used to sign your writing like that.
>
> Next year is International Asperger Year to mark the 100th anniversary
> of his birth. So we can expect all sorts of weirdoes to try and muscle
> in on the event. But, as I wrote in my book,
>
> 'Kanner was the first to publish a paper describing Autism in 1943.
> Asperger's paper from 1944 was largely ignored as he published in
> German from within the Third Reich. But he was no nazi. Today we may
> detect a tendency in his writing to paint too positive a picture of
> potential outcomes for people with Autism. He used the phrase
> "autistic intelligence" approvingly as an explanation for genius.
> Frith (1989) suggests that this "must be seen in the light of his
> fervent belief in the powers of education." It should also be seen in
> the light of his desire to save his patients from the gas chambers
> that awaited all deemed defective by the nazi state.' (Stanton 2000
> p24)
>
> References
> Uta Frith (ed.): Autism and Asperger Syndrome (Cambridge University
> Press, 1991)
> Mike Stanton: Learning to Live with High Functioning Autism; A
> Parent's Guide for Professionals. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000)

Thanks Mike, not that I ever doubted Asperger's good intentions, but I
always wondered if it wasn't dangerous to label the children with
"Autistische Psychopaten", as I recall that's how he named them at that
time, seen in that frame of time and place. I thought it would bring these
children in a dangerous situation, but as I understand now, they were
already in a dangerous situation. I'm happy to read that he tried to save
this children. Perhaps he is our own Oscar Schindler ;-)
--
Peter

http://www.peterhendrickx.tk


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