Nazism’s dual character combined humane wellness ideals with depraved atrocities

Evidence

Asperger, too, maintained two seemingly divergent personalities—the man who patiently watched and drew up sensitive, humane profiles of his fascinating “little professors,” making the case for their right to live, and the man who callously signed transfer orders for less verbal, less conventionally charming children. For Sheffer, the “double-sided character of Asperger’s actions underscores the double-sided character of Nazism as a whole”—a system that committed depraved atrocities in the name of collective health and wellness. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 704

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the historical grounding for diagonalism: wellness culture’s dark twin isn’t a corruption of Nazism but its very structure — collective health as the justification for extermination.
• XREF: connects to: Fascist body-worship masks a repressed death-wish that aligns with killing — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 222