On
this date, October 8, 1946, the Camp Commandant of Neuengamme Concentration
Camp, Max Pauly was executed by hanging at Hamelin Prison. I will post the
information about him from Wikipedia.
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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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