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Paul Hermann Feustel
Paul Hermann Feustel served as head of Gestapo offices in Kolín and Benešov responsible for repression and executions. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Kolín and Benešov 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
- Paul Hermann Feustel was born in Lengenfeld im Vogtland on 30 July 1899 and was executed in Leipzig on 8 May 1973. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- From 1941 to 1945 he headed Gestapo offices in Kolín and Benešov, organizing arrests, brutal interrogations, deportations and execution operations against the Czech population. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The East Berlin City Court found him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced him to death on 11 December 1972, and the sentence was carried out on 8 May 1973. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes command of documented Gestapo operations and personal participation in execution actions to Feustel, limiting the account to conduct established in the files and historical research. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1942, during the reprisals after the attack on Reinhard Heydrich, he coordinated Gestapo operations and participated in executions in the Kolín region. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- After his identity was uncovered, he was arrested and sentenced to death in East Berlin on 11 December 1972. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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
After years living under a false identity, he was tried; the judgment of 11 December 1972 was upheld on appeal on 26 January 1973 and carried out on 8 May 1973. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
A museum article from 2011 gives 18 May as the execution date, while later file-based accounts and the accepted chronology give 8 May; the profile uses the latter date and discloses the discrepancy. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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