After The War
Because of his membership in the SS, Becker was condemned after end of war to a three years prison sentence. Afterwards he worked as a salesman for animal feeds and then to support himself in 1954 he started working first in a precision machine shop and then in concrete construction. In 1959 he suffered a stroke and moved to a nursing home in the upper Hessian town of Laubach.
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“Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.”
—Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)