HITLER AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
HITLER AND BIOTECHNOLOG Y- Ultimate killing machine Nazi scientists secretly researched the possibility of dropping malaria-infected mosquitoes behind enemy lines during World War Two, a German academic has claimed Hitler’s scientists planned to use malaria-infected mosquitoes as biological weapons by sending them behind enemy lines in the Second World War, according to research. SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered secret research into how insects infected with the disease could be kept alive long enough to be used against the allies, German academic Dr Klaus Reinhardt has claimed. In January 1942, the SS chief created a special laboratory at Dachau concentration camp with the official aim of finding new remedies against diseases transmitted by lice and other insects, as well as the typhoid that plagued German troops. But in the journal Endeavour, Reinhardt said records kept by Dachau Entomological Institute revealed its scientists also pursued research into biologic...