Hans Asperger was not the first person to do research on Autism. One of the earliest examples of research into autistic people was from a paper published in 1925 by the Soviet Jewish Dr. Grunya Sukhareva. 19 years before Asperger would publish his first paper on Autism. It is likely that because of her Jewish heritage and his ties to Nazi regime at the time; that Asperger used Sukhareva research without citing her.