Adolf Hitler planned to use mosquitoes as biological weapons

India Today Online  February 14, 2014 | UPDATED 19:27 IST

 

File photo of Adolf Hitler. Photo: AP.

Biological weapon is not a modern concept as the Nazis considered using mosquitoes as biological weapons during the second world war, a research has revealed.According to a report published in The Guardian, towards the end of the war, scientists at an institute in Dachau conducted research into how malaria-infected insects could be kept alive for long enough to be released into enemy territory.
In January 1942, the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, ordered the creation of the Dachau entomological institute.
In 1944, scientists at Dachau examined different types of mosquitoes for their life spans in order to establish whether they could be kept alive long enough to be transported from a breeding lab to a drop-off point.
The report says that at the end of the trials, the director of the institute recommended a particular type of anopheles mosquito, a genus well-known for its capacity to transmit malaria to humans.
With Germany having signed up to the 1925 Geneva protocol, Adolf Hitler had officially ruled out the use of biological and chemical weapons during the Second World War, as had allied forces. Research into the mosquito project had to be carried out in secret. However, in the end, the research proved of little value.

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