Still, Asperger apparently refused to report his young patients to the Reich Committee, which created what he described in a 1974 interview as “a truly dangerous situation” for him. Twice, the Gestapo showed up at his clinic to arrest him. Both times, however, Franz Hamburger used his power as a prominent NSDAP member to intervene in his favor. How can we dare predict the behavior of man? At one point, Asperger suggested to his superiors that his little professors would make superior code breakers for the Reich. By the time he filed his thesis to Hamburger in October 1943, however, he must
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