Austrian doctor Asperger 'actively cooperated' with Nazis, study says
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VIENNA (Reuters) – Hans Asperger, the Austrian paediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, “actively cooperated” with a Nazi program under which disabled children were killed, an academic paper published on Thursday says.