Career
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. He appears under the name of "Hans" in Simon Wiesenthal"s 1967 book "The Murderers Among Us" (ch 22, "The Other Side of the Moon").