70
years ago on this date, October 8, 1946, the Camp Commandant of Neuengamme
Concentration Camp, Max Pauly was executed by hanging at Hamelin Prison.
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Official
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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.
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 to May 13, 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced
to death with 11 other defendants. He was hanged in Hamelin prison on October
8, 1946.
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