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Max Pauly
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Personal details
Born (1907-06-01)June 1, 1907
Died 8 October 1946(1946-10-08) (aged 39)
Military service
Allegiance Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch Flag Schutzstaffel Schutzstaffel
3rd SS Division LogoTotenkopfverbände
Rank SS Standartenführer

Max Pauly (June 1, 1907, Wesselburen – October 8, 1946) 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. 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. He was executed by hanging (Tod durch den Strang) by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin prison on October 8, 1946.[1][2]

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  1. 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 (German)
  2. 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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