Editing August Becker (section)

=== Ongoing conduct of the gassing program ===
The
<nowiki> </nowiki>Brandenburg gassing, together with the gassings of Polish mental 
patients that the SS-Sonderkommando had carried out in the autumn 1939 
gas chamber in Fort VII at Posen,<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>
 led to the specification that the T4 victims should also be killed with
<nowiki> </nowiki>CO gas. Becker was assigned to instruct the physicians, who were to set
<nowiki> </nowiki>up six "institutes" for gassing, the first of which was at Grafeneck. 
According to Becker's later testimony, around the end of January 1940 he
<nowiki> </nowiki>brought the gas bottles out from Brandenburg to Grafeneck Castle,
<nowiki> </nowiki>to put the institute there "into operation", that is, to start the 
killing program there. Originally, a Dr. Schumann was to operate the CO 
valve, but Schumann let the gas flow too quickly, causing it to hiss 
loudly inside the "shower room." This caused the victims, whom Becker 
called, even years later, the "delinquents" to become agitated. Becker 
took over manometers from Schumann. He slowed down the gas infusion into
<nowiki> </nowiki>the chamber, which caused the victims to calm down and die shortly 
thereafter.<sup>[2]</sup>
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Up to the end of Action T4 in August 1941 Becker's job was to arrange delivery of CO bottles from the I.G. Farben plant in Ludwigshafen to the killing facilities. The purchase orders for the gas were made by Albert Widmann of the Criminal Technology Institute (''Kriminaltechnische Institut'') or (KTI), of the Central National Security Office (RSHA). Like Becker, Widman was also tried in a German court after the war. In Widman's case, the court, based in Stuttgart
<nowiki> </nowiki>found that Widman's role was to order the CO gas bottles to conceal the
<nowiki> </nowiki>fact that the purchase orders were coming from a party agency, and in 
particular, from the Führer Chancellery. This was decided upon by Becker
<nowiki> </nowiki>and Widman's superior, Victor Brack, at the Führer Chancellery, but it had been previously suggested by Arthur Nebe.
<nowiki> </nowiki>Widmann received from the individual killing institutes their CO 
demand. He then ordered the CO gas bottles from the Baden Aniline and 
Soda Works<sup>[6]</sup>
 in Ludwigshafen orders, giving KTI as the purchaser. Widman then sent
the order and supply confirmations to Becker, who was working at the Führer Chancellery arranging for their delivery to the individual institutes.<sup>[7]</sup>