A new exhibit brings to light a WWI-era incident.
The plot involved killing horses in order to help Germany. Photograph courtesy of National Archives.
Imagine a Chevy Chase DC business and you might think of a low-key eatery or a historic movie theater. What might not come to mind: a bioweapons lab. But that’s precisely what Anton Dilger—an American surgeon born in Virginia who secretly worked for the German government—established in 1915 in his home on a leafy street in upper Northwest.The house is still there, but the crazy story isn’t well known today.
As it turns out, the target of Dilger’s bioweapon efforts wasn’t people but horses. Before the US entered World War I, it sold hundreds of thousands of horses to Britain and France to help their fight against Germany. The Germans managed to convince Dilger—who was the son of a German immigrant and studying in Germany at the time—to help interfere with that effort.
Dilger’s house still stands—a perfectly normal-looking five-bedroom with a white picket fence and no obvious signs of its anthrax past. The owners of record, perhaps understandably, didn’t reply to our inquiries about the current state of their basement.
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