97-Year-Old Convicted of Being Accessory to More Than 10,000 Murders at Nazi Camp
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A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
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A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner, who was in her late teens when she worked in the Stutthof camp, was convicted as the authorities make a final effort to seek justice for Nazi-era crimes.
The court says judges were convinced Irmgard Furchner 'deliberately supported the fact that 10,505 prisoners were cruelly killed' though her work as a stenographer at Stutthof concentration camp.
Irmgard Furchner worked as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in Nazi-occupied Poland, from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.
A Berlin court convicted a 97-year-old woman on Tuesday for aiding and abetting more than 10,500 deaths at a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s and was given a two-year suspended sentence.
A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder as a secretary to the commander of a World War II concentration camp. She was given a 2-year suspended sentence.
A court in Germany convicted 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner on over 10,000 counts of accessory to murder for working as a secretary to a Nazi SS commander at a concentration camp.
A German court convicted a former Nazi concentration camp typist, “Secretary of Evil,” for being complicit in the murders of thousands during the Holocaust.
A German court has convicted Irmgard Furchner, 97, of having contributed to the murder of over 10,500 people during her time working as a typist at the Stutthof concentration camp in World War II.
A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II
Irmgard Furchner, a stenographer and typist to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, was accused of being a key member of a death camp that murdered 10,505 people while she was there during World War II.
In what could be the last trial of its kind, Irmgard Furchner — dubbed the ‘secretary of evil’ by German media — was handed a two-year suspended sentence by a court in Itzehoe.
