A separate, small part of Adolf Hitler's secret plan "OPERATION T-4" was given to genetics and the creation of weapons that have no analogues in the world. The laboratory, which was carefully guarded by a special team of the Waffen SS, was located in Berlin at Tiergartenstrasse, 4. Hence the name of the secret project - "Operation T-4".
EUGENICA AS THE BEGINNING OF GENE WEAPONS
The signing of the act of Germany's surrender in World War I led the country not only to a massive depression, but also to an eternal search for those who are to blame. In the press, one after another, articles of some doctors appear, who asserted that the nation is degenerating. Among the popularizers of the idea of the genetic "renewal of the nation" Dr. Arthur Gütt, the future head of the Ministry of Public Health of the Third Reich, as well as psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, the founder of the German Society for Racial Hygiene. They hammer into the heads of Germans tired of hunger and mass unemployment that it is possible to create a perfect person. To do this, it is enough to make the necessary adjustments at the molecular level, remove the negative, not inherent in the "homo Germanicus", and that's it - the superman is ready! Such a soldier does not get tired, is resistant to diseases and heavy loads. However, during these years, developments were carried out only in private laboratories and were based more on theoretical calculations than in practice. The Weimar Republic still retained signs of democracy and could not afford to openly conduct genetic selection of the population. But already in 1929, after the collapse of the German economy, the first laboratories appeared where experiments were carried out to breed the "Nordic race". A few more years have passed, and the government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler begins to take practical steps to create a gene weapon. A few more years have passed, and the government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler begins to take practical steps to create a gene weapon. A few more years have passed, and the government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler begins to take practical steps to create a gene weapon.
GENOME NSDAP
Doctors Gutt and Rudin advise the Fuhrer not to delay, not to wait for the results of scientific developments to create a superman, but to start immediate practical work. Select the strong and separate the weak from them, and in a short time "bring out" a real soldier who can reliably defend the Reich. Hitler easily agrees, there is no need to convince him. Since 1933, all residents of Germany with hereditary mental or physical disabilities have to undergo mandatory registration with the Ministry of Public Health. They fall into a special "black" list of those who have been banned from public service, military service and some activities, such as medicine. At the same time, a law on compulsory sterilization of persons of this category came into force in Germany.
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Heinrich Himmler's decree creates a racial hygiene program. Under this program, Jews and other minorities who were considered racially alien to German people were subject to special registration. They received documents different from others, the so-called fremdenausweis - an alien's passport. Until recently, this passport existed in Germany, and some categories of refugees received it. According to the plans of "Operation T-4" it was necessary to gain access to the life codes of a person in order to be able to manipulate them. The time has come for practical testing and development. In May 1941, the geneticist doctor Sigmund Ruscher complained in a confidential letter to Heinrich Himmler that "genetic tests of new means, during which the subjects must inevitably die, fail on monkeys." In just six months, Ruscher gets the coveted laboratory,necessary material for research and personal permission of the Reichsfuehrer. Not far from Munich. To Dachau. In the years that followed, almost all of the T-4 doctors' staff, including genetics Joseph Mengele, worked in Sobibor, Treblinka, Belchek and Birkenau (Auschwitz). They worked to create a genotype that has biological superiority over other "subhumans."
Until May 1945, during euthanasia measures in Germany, about 200 thousand people were killed, more than half a million citizens were forcibly sterilized.
MAGIC BULLET
Today, no one is engaged in human breeding in Germany - this is prosecuted. The creation of combat genetic weapons is prohibited by law. But back in 1999, the Bundeswehr spent 10 million marks for the purpose of "medical protection against biological weapons". The principle of the gene weapon is based on the so-called MAGIC-BULLET method. A virus, such as influenza, is taken and infected with a special gene that causes irreversible hereditary changes. Biological expert Vivienne Nathanson believes that it is enough to spray such a virus over a reservoir of drinking water to infect, make non-fertile or even destroy huge masses of people. When it comes to B-WAFFEN, that is, biological weapons, one should bear in mind the principle of dual-use, that is, dual use. When developing a defense, scientists will inevitably create means of attack. In the early 90s, the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt received an order from the Ministry of Defense to create a vaccine against botulism. Scientists were faced with a problem: they had a neutralized, dead pathogen at their disposal. Biologically pure and viable material was absent. Therefore, it was necessary to create botulism poison in the laboratory, and only then work on protective equipment. In the mid-90s, the institute was closed. The living material was irradiated and destroyed by the end of the tests. To create a battle toxin, it was enough to just omit the last stage. Biologically pure and viable material was absent. Therefore, it was necessary to create botulism poison in the laboratory, and only then work on protective equipment. In the mid-90s, the institute was closed. The living material was irradiated and destroyed by the end of the tests. To create a battle toxin, it was enough to just omit the last stage. Biologically pure and viable material was absent. Therefore, it was necessary to create botulism poison in the laboratory, and only then work on protective equipment. In the mid-90s, the institute was closed. The living material was irradiated and destroyed by the end of the tests. To create a battle toxin, it was enough to just omit the last stage.
A. Sosnovsky, Kommersant