Editing August Becker (section)

=== Introduction of the gas vans ===
A destroyed Magirus-Deutz van found in 1945 in Koło (Kolo), Poland, not far from the Kulmhof (Chelmno) extermination camp.
<nowiki> </nowiki>The same type of van was used by the Nazis for suffocation, with the 
exhaust fumes diverted into the sealed rear compartment where the 
victims were locked in. This particular van has not been modified yet

To lessen the psychological impact on the killers of the one-on-one 
style of killing that had characterized Einsatzgruppen operations, the 
SS, at the direction of Heinrich Himmler, invented the gas van,
<nowiki> </nowiki>a type of mobile gas chamber consisting of a van or truck with an 
air-tight cargo area capable of carrying a number of people. The exhaust
<nowiki> </nowiki>pipe of the van could be set to exhaust into the cargo area, so that 
when the van was loaded with victims, and the cargo door closed and 
locked, all that was needed was to drive down a road for a time while 
the carbon monoxide
<nowiki> </nowiki>in the exhaust gas killed the people in the van. Once this process was 
finished, the bodies were pulled out, and the van driven on to another 
location to kill another group of people.<sup>[9][10]</sup>