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'''August Becker''' (17 August 1900 in Staufenberg, Hesse – 31 December 1967) was during the Nazi regime in Germany (1933–1945) an SS lieutenant colonel (''Obersturmbannführer'') and chemist in the [[Reich Main Security Office|Central Reich Security Office]] (RSHA).
<nowiki> </nowiki>He helped design the vans with a gas chamber built into the back 
compartment used in early Nazi mass murder of disabled people, political
<nowiki> </nowiki>dissidents, Jews, and other "racial enemies," including Action T4 as well as the Einsatzgruppen (mobile Nazi death squads) in the Nazi-occupied portions of the Soviet Union.
<nowiki> </nowiki>Generally his role was to provide important technical support, but on 
at least one occasion he personally gassed about 20 people.