Mosquitos have killed more of your ancestors[0] than anything else. To use your Nazi metaphor they probably look at themselves in a manner similar to the people who landed on Omaha beach in 1941.

[0]"The general consensus of demographers is that about 108 billion human beings have ever lived, and that mosquito-borne diseases have killed close to half—52 billion people, the majority of them young children." https://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/mosquito-killed-billio...