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| death_place = Hamelin Prison, Hamelin, Allied-occupied Germany| death_cause = Execution by hanging



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23px) Schutzstaffel(File:3rd SS Division Logo.svgSS-Totenkopfverbände>TotenkopfverbändeSchutzstaffel>SS Standartenführer}}Capital punishment>Death| criminal_status = Executed| conviction = War crimes}}Max Pauly (1 June 1907 – 8 October 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. He lived on site with his family. Prior to his assignment at the camps, Pauly had presided over the executions of Polish POWs captured after the Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig.Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes with 13 others in the Curio Haus in Hamburg which was located in the British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from 18 March to 13 May 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants. He was never tried for the crimes committed at Stutthof.WEB,kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm, Odpowiedzialność za Zbrodnie Popełnione w Stutthofie. Procesy, KL Stutthof, Monografia, 22 January 2009, 12 November 2014, Janina Grabowska, Internet Archive, Responsibility for the Atrocities Committed at Stutthof. The trials., dead,kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20090122201600kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20090122201600kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm, 22 January 2009,

Execution

Pauly was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin Prison on 8 October 1946.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}}.The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922–1945 Publisher: Da Capo Press (21 March 1989) Language: English {{ISBN|0-306-80351-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0306803512}}.

Legacy

Pauly is mentioned under the name of “Hans” in Simon Wiesenthal’s 1967 book, The Murderers Among Us (ch. 22, “The Other Side of the Moon“).

See also

• Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• SS Cap Arcona (1927) ocean liner
• Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig

Notes and references

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External links

• www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/index.php?id=1004" title="web.archive.org/web/20120214024900www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/index.php?id=1004">Neuengamme Museum
• {{YouTube|uvnODk9be4A|Neuengamme Video}}

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