Paul Hermann Feustel (July 30, 1899 – May 8, 1973) was a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and the Gestapo during World War II.

During the war, he would eventually reach the rank of Hauptsturmführer, and committed numerous atrocities in Czechoslovakia, including the ordering of a massacre after Germany's surrender.

[3] Throughout the war, Feustel and his men arrested civilians and resistance members, who were either executed or sent to prisons and concentration camps.

In 1942, after Reinhard Heydrich was fatally wounded following an assassination attempt, Feustel ordered mass raids and arrests; he had 42 Czech civilians executed and 2460 more sent to concentration camps.

It only stopped when the partisans, 5 Soviets and 2 Czechs, ran extremely low on ammunition and made the joint decision to commit suicide rather than face capture.

They managed to kill one SS policeman, 42-year-old Hermann Heinz, and wound another officer with a gunshots to the shoulder and face.

However, one man, Alexandr Vasiljevič Fomin, who was also the initial commander of Mr. Jan Hus, survived his suicide attempt.

[6][7] On May 7, 1945, a large crowd of people gathered in the public square of Kolín to hear and celebrate the formal announcement of Germany's surrender.

After head of state Erich Honecker declined to intervene, Feustel was executed by shooting at Leipzig Prison on May 8, 1973.