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Prohibiting the use of biological and Chemical Weapons, the Geneva Protocol was a follow up of Germany's ban to use Chemical Weapons under the Treaty of Versailles.

The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons. It was signed at Geneva on June 17, 1925 and was entered into force on February 8, 1928.