Pierre Paoli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pierre Paoli

French torturer

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1921

Place of Birth: Aubigny-sur-Nère, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 15-Jun-1946

Profession: torturer

Nationality: France, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Pierre Paoli

  • Pierre-Marie Paoli, also known as Lamote, (1921–1946) was a French agent in the Gestapo.
  • The Gestapo (Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Born on 31 December 1921 in Aubigny-sur-Nere, France to a middle-class family, Pierre Paoli attended public school.
  • In October 1937 he obtained a job with the town of Aubigny, Allier as a clerk.
  • Later he became the town's administrative assistant and later on 1 May 1938, became the Treasury of the town Mehun-sur-Yèvre, at age 17 years old.
  • He then left his family to take the job at Mehun-sur-Yèvre. When war in Europe was declared in September 1939, he decided to return to Aubigny for a short time, and then moved to Paris where he worked odd jobs.
  • One of his odd jobs was as a bicycle messenger on behalf of the Nazi German Admiralty.
  • In January 1942 Paoli then moved to Bourges.
  • On 31 March 1943 he was hired as interpreter at the Gestapo HQ in Bourges.
  • The Germans offered him a room in the local Gestapo HQ to stay.
  • He was put in charge of Gestapo section 4A over Berry province, the department in Cher that fought against the Communists.
  • But after a short time, he is given freedom of action and autonomy to hunt anyone thought to be anti-Nazi.
  • He became a trusted agent of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and led numerous operations against the French Resistance.
  • He obtained the SS rank of Scharführer and was given German citizenship.
  • He arrested over 300 people and deported many to camps as part of the Final Solution.
  • He was known for his cruelty and torture of people during interrogation.
  • He stripped his victims and seize their valuables.
  • He even tortured Senator Marcel Plaisant.
  • Anyone arrested by Paoli was either killed by the Gestapo in Bourges or sent to a Nazi concentration camp.The French Gestapo also were part of the "roundup of Beffes" on 30 April 1944.
  • It was two nights of raids conducted on 21 and 22 July 1944.
  • Seventy-one Jewish refugees were arrested and sent to Saint-Amand-Montrond.
  • Over the following days, Paoli participated in the killing of 36 Jews on the site of the abandoned Guerry Farm, where their bodies were thrown into three wells.
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  • Krameisen was one of the few that was a survivor of the raid and told the US Army soldiers about the raid and Paoli's role in it.Given Allied troops were nearby, Paoli evacuated Bourges on 6 August 1944.
  • He was arrested by British forces at Flensburg near the Danish border on 16 May 1945.
  • He was handed over to French authorities in January 1946 and brought back to Bourges for trial. He was brought to trial as a traitor on 3 May 1946; his nickname in the town was "the monster" and "sinister Paoli".
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  • Krameisen gave testimony at the trial.
  • There was public outrage over the exposure of his atrocities.
  • At his trial he declared: "I'm not French, but German".
  • He was sentenced to death and on 15 June 1946 he was executed in Bourges for his war crimes.

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