Hans Asperger

Alice in Nightmareland: The Matchbox Girl, by Alice Jolly, reviewed

29 November 2025 9:00 am

A mute 12-year-old girl is invited to Dr Asperger’s clinic in 1930s Vienna – but how will ‘idiot’ children fare once the Nazis come to power?

Hans Asperger at the Children’s Clinic of the University of Vienna Hospital c.1940

Hero or collaborator?

12 September 2015 9:00 am

Simon Baron-Cohen wonders whether the humane Hans Asperger may finally have betrayed the vulnerable children in his care in Nazi-occupied Vienna