Nazi child ‘science’ grew out of the same Vienna that hosted progressive child development

Evidence

In the early years of Nazi rule, a group of doctors in Austria became intensely interested in studying children who did not conform to the homogenous and supremacist version of the Aryan collective, the Volk, that was at the center of the supremacist project. There was a painful irony in this fact because, just a few years earlier, some of these same doctors had been part of a progressive flowering of child development in what was known as Red Vienna. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 680

Categorization

• XREF: The Red Vienna-to-Nazi irony foreshadows the book’s diagonalism thesis — progressive and fascist apparatus drawing on the same human capital.