The Carl Schurz Society sponsored Pauli on a lecture tour of the United States in 1935. His autobiography, "Erinnerungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten", was published in 1936. On 19 July 1937, the Degenerate Art Exhibition opened in Munich, which encouraged the public denigration of modern art. The important collections of modern art that Pauli had spent years building and defending in Bremen and Hamburg were dismantled. Pauli died in Munich on 8 July 1938.