In the early years of Nazi rule, a group of doctors in Austria became intensely interested in studying children who did not conform to the homogenous and supremacist version of the Aryan collective, the Volk, that was at the center of the supremacist project. There was a painful irony in this fact because, just a few years earlier, some of these same doctors had been part of a progressive flowering of child development in what was known as Red Vienna.

XREF: Connects to histories of how scientific institutions were co-opted by authoritarian regimes, parallel to similar dynamics in other totalitarian states.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 680