UPDATE: Nazi scientists worked on ways to use malaria-carrying mosquitoes as a weapon, according to researchers. Until now, experts have disputed whether Germany was working on biological warfare during World War II.
Dr Klaus Reinhardt, who led the study, told The Local that he came across documents at Dachau's Entomology Institute which suggested that “biological weapons [using mosquitoes] could have been developed as an offensive, not defensive, weapon”.
Until now, it had been generally thought by experts that the Nazis only intended ever to use biological weapons defensively.
By 1944 the institute had decided on a specific breed of mosquito most suited to a potential biological attack, said Reinhardt.
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