Max Pauly
| Max Pauly | |
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| Born | 1 June 1907 Wesselburen |
| Died | 8 October 1946 (aged 39) Hamelin |
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| Allegiance | .svg.png){kind=small} Nazi Germany |
| Service/branch |  Schutzstaffel Totenkopfverbände |
| Rank | SS Standartenführer |
Max Pauly (June 1, 1907, Wesselburen – October 8, 1946, Hamelin) was an SS Standartenführer who was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1939 to August 1942 and commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp and the associated subcamps from September 1942 until liberation in May 1945.[1]
During his tenure as commandant of Neuengamme numerous atrocities occurred including medical experimentation. In 1944 Kurt Heissmeyer conducted experiments on 20 Jewish children in an effort to develop new drugs to treat tuberculosis. The children were brought from Auschwitz specifically for this purpose. The children and their four caregivers were murdered by being hanged from hooks on the wall in April 1945 in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm School in Hamburg which had been used as a subcamp.
Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes with thirteen others in the Curio Haus in Hamburg which was located in the British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from March 18, 1946 to May 13, 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants.[1] He was never tried for the crimes committed at Stutthof.[2] Pauly was executed by hanging (Tod durch den Strang) by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin prison on October 8, 1946.[1][3]
See also
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- SS Cap Arcona (1927) ocean liner
- Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ernst Klee: The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich persons: who came before and after 1945. Publisher: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.
- ↑ Janina Grabowska (22 January 2009). "Odpowiedzialność za Zbrodnie Popełnione w Stutthofie. Procesy" [Responsibility for the Attrocities Committed at Stutthof. The trials.] (Internet Archive). KL Stutthof, Monografia. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ↑ The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922–1945 Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 21, 1989) Language: English ISBN 0-306-80351-8, ISBN 978-0306803512.
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| Preceded by None |
Commandant of Stutthof concentration camp September 1939 – August 1942 |
Succeeded by SS-Sturmbannführer Paul-Werner Hoppe |
| Preceded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Martin Gottfried Weiss |
Commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp September 1942 – 4 May 1945 |
Succeeded by Camp liberated |