Austria’s loss was the world’s gain. Anni Weiss was the first of Asperger’s team to leave, arriving in America in 1934. The clinic’s gifted diagnostician, Georg Frankl, took flight in 1937, emigrating to Maryland with the aid of a Jewish doctor who had left Austria years earlier. But as the NSDAP’s power and influence grew, the careers of the true believers thrived. Erwin
