There was just one bit of unfinished business to attend to: those rumors that Asperger, who had died in 1980, was a Nazi. “It was a crazy problem. It took me weeks to figure it out,” Volkmar confessed. Finally, he decided to phone up Wing and bluntly ask her if there was any truth to the rumors. She came up with the perfect answer—one that was utterly irrelevant but virtually guaranteed to persuade Volkmar to sign off on the new diagnosis. “Oh, dear no,” she reassured him from London. “Asperger was a deeply religious man.”
