Editing August Becker (section)

== Assignment to Action T4 killing program ==
Olga Benário Prestes in 1928, later murdered at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre

Self-portrait by Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler who was murdered at Sonnenstein Euthanasia Centre

Becker remained with RSHA Amt VI until December 1939, when, shortly 
before Christmas, he received an order by telephone to report to 
Oberführer Victor Brack in the Reich Chancellery (''Reichskanzlei''). Becker went to Brack's office that same day. Brack was part of the office of the Führer Chancellery (''Kanzlei des Führers''). According to Becker, Brack told him the following:
** At the personal command of (''Reichsführer-SS'') Himmler, Becker was deputed to Brack;
** Becker's assignment would be to carry out a "euthanasia" program to destroy all idiots and mental patients;
** The killing would be done with carbon monoxide gas. This gas had already been studied by a chemist, Dr. Albert Widmann, with the Office of the National Criminal Police (RKPA) in Berlin to assess its utility.
** Becker "didn't need to have any scruples with this thing, because
the killing of these people would be made lawful by a Führer directive.<sup>[2]</sup>
This program came to be known as Action T4.