Malaria as a biological weapon of nazi Germany during the Second world war

Abstract

he article is devoted to the history of the use of specific biological weapons by Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the research in order to study the “most effective” methods of preventing and combating infections transmitted by insects. Nazi scientists planned to use biological warfare against enemies of Germany under cover of the entomological institute of the concentration camp and tried to use malaria mosquitoes as an attack biological weapon. The study performed by the Germans to test how long mosquitoes could survive on airplanes showed that the transmitter of malaria Anopheles maculipennis survived much longer than other species when they were not fed. Despite rather well developed plan to create an artificial biological dominance of Anopheles labranchiae in the territory of Padan swamps the effective medicines available to the Anglo-American troops, and, of course, the high effectiveness of the assault operation did not enable to demonstrate the power of biological weapons, which were intended not to be left from the troops and empty space.