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Johann Pauls
Johann Pauls served as SS non-commissioned officer and commander of a prisoner labor detail. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Stutthof in occupied Poland through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Born on 9 February 1908 in Danzig, he served at Stutthof as an SS-Oberscharführer. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
- He commanded a prisoner labor detail and supervised the prisoners’ work. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
- The court found him guilty of beating and wounding prisoners and of killing and shooting prisoners. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
Place in the chain of responsibility
His responsibility rests both on his supervisory function and on judicial findings about his own acts of violence and killing. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
Key events and mechanisms
- He was sentenced to death in the first Stutthof trial on 31 May 1946. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
- The sentence was carried out in Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The Special Criminal Court in Gdańsk sentenced him to death; the sentence was carried out publicly on 4 July 1946. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
Limits of the evidence
No separate victim total or acts of other Stutthof staff members are attributed to him. No portrait was selected without verified reuse rights. (Source: Crimes and Graves, summary of certified judgment no. 382/46, pp. 140–141; Source: Stutthof Museum, account of camp-staff proceedings, first-trial section; Source: Gedanopedia, account of the first Stutthof trial and execution)
Sources
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