Editing August Becker (section)

== Early Nazi career ==
By September 1930 Becker had joined the Nazi party, and in February 1931 he also became a member of the SS. From February to April 1934 he was occasionally active in the Gestapo
<nowiki> </nowiki>office at Giessen, before he finally left the university in 1935. At 
his trial on 4 April 1960, Becker testified that in May 1935 he was 
assigned to the SS-regiment "Germania" at Bad Arolsen, a small resort town near Kassel, the major city in the northern part of the German state of Hesse, in central Germany. During this time Becker held the rank of ''SS-Oberscharführer'', and was concerned only with military affairs. He remained with this regiment up to 28 February 1938.<sup>[2]</sup>