Asperger, too, maintained two seemingly divergent personalities—the man who patiently watched and drew up sensitive, humane profiles of his fascinating "little professors," making the case for their right to live, and the man who callously signed transfer orders for less verbal, less conventionally charming children. For Sheffer, the "double-sided character of Asperger's actions underscores the double-sided character of Nazism as a whole"—a system that committed depraved atrocities in the name of collective health and wellness.

XREF: The dual nature of Nazi perpetrators echoes Hannah Arendt's banality of evil and broader scholarship on ordinary people committing atrocities. Also connects to the wider historical debate about Asperger's complicity set against his sympathetic patient profiles.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 704