Asperger’s Children: The origins of autism in Nazi Vienna, by Edith Sheffer

Author: Edith Sheffer. Review by Martin Shallcross

by Martin Shallcross 11th June 2021

This is one of the most harrowing books I have ever read. Edith Sheffer is a historian in the USA. Her son Eric, aged thirteen, is among the one-in-sixty children being diagnosed on the autism spectrum there. She dedicated this book to Eric.