Asperger signed murder orders for disabled children as young as two

Evidence

With the euthanasia program already murdering disabled people on a mass scale, he was effectively saying that most autistic people deserved to die—but the few who showed a special capacity for focus could be put to use by the Nazi Party (perhaps by becoming code breakers, or some other hyperconcentrated part of the fascist project). Recent research has shown that Asperger signed papers for children as young as two years old to go to the clinic Am Spiegelgrund, where they would be killed. Asperger, in other words, was a key node in the system of sorting who would live and who would be murdered, an apparatus that would soon be expanded into a murder machinery capable of killing millions of people who did not fit the Aryan ideal in other ways. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 696

Categorization

• SHARE: Serious clinical-ethics fact for anyone working in disability or autism fields.
• XREF: Connects to the triage/sorting machinery motif from early chapters — who gets classified as worthy of life.