Very rare document signed by the infamous KL Stutthof Lagerkommandant Max Pauly rejecting a release request!

In this document, signed personally by him with an ink pen, he turns down the request of relatives of an unknown prisoner of his release from that concentration camp on the 19. June 1942.

Max Pauly (1 June 1907, Wesselburen – 8 October 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 sub-camps from September 1942 until liberation in May 1945.

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 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. Pauly was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin prison on 8 October 1946.