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☆ Germany charges 98-year-old former Nazi camp guard
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Nadine Schmidt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Berlin CNN —A 98-year-old former Nazi concentration guard has been indicted on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of more than 3,300 people during the Holocaust, German authorities said on Friday. The public prosecutor in the western city of Giessen, near Frankfurt, said in a statement that the man worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. Germany is racing against time to bring the last surviving perpetrators of Nazi war crimes – now well into old age – to justice. Of the roughly 200,000 prisoners who passed through the camp, around 100,000 are thought to have died there. An estimated 6 million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

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☆ 97-year-old former Nazi death camp secretary appeals conviction
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A 97-year-old woman is appealing her conviction in Germany of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders when she was a secretary to the commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The court said Wednesday that both the defense and a lawyer for a co-plaintiff filed appeals to the Federal Court of Justice. Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function between June 1943 and April 1945. Defense lawyers had sought Furchner’s acquittal, arguing that the evidence hadn’t shown beyond doubt that she knew about the systematic killings at the Stutthof camp, meaning there was no proof of intent as required for criminal liability. But presiding Judge Dominik Gross said as he announced the verdict that it was “simply beyond all imagination” that Furchner didn’t notice the killings at Stutthof.

☆ Former Nazi Camp Secretary, 97, Found Guilty in What Could be Final Holocaust Trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Bertrand Benoit | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Irmgard Furchner arriving at the start of her trial in Germany for her role as a junior employee at a Nazi concentration camp in World War II. BERLIN—A court in Germany found a former secretary in a concentration camp guilty of accessory to murder, the latest in a string of convictions targeting low-level members of the Nazi’s extermination effort. In what could be one of the last criminal cases against individuals who participated in the Holocaust, the court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, handed Irmgard Furchner, 97 years old, a suspended two-year prison sentence for her role as a junior employee of the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, now part of Poland, between 1943 and 1945.

MAINZ, Germany — A 97-year-old woman who worked as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted by a German court Tuesday of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people. 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 for helping the Stutthof concentration camp to function during World War Two. That's in line with what prosecutors had sought, while survivors of the death camp and relatives of victims who appeared as joint plaintiffs also said that it was not in their interest for the 97-year-old to serve any time in prison. Furchner was charged with “aiding those in a position of responsibility at the former Stutthof concentration camp with the systematic killing of those imprisoned there, due to her work as a shorthand typist/secretary in the Camp Commandant’s Office between June 1943 and April 1945,” according to a court press release. In Germany proof of intent is required for criminal liability.

☆ Former concentration camp secretary, 97, convicted of Nazi war crimes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/10] Defendant Irmgard F., a former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp attends her trial in a courtroom in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. Christian Charisius/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary was convicted on Tuesday for her role in the murder of thousands of people, in what could be one of the country's last trials for World War Two crimes. Some 65,000 people died of starvation and disease or in the gas chamber at the camp in Stutthof, near Gdansk in today's Poland. Furchner was wheeled into court wearing a cream-coloured winter coat and beret, and with a blanket over her lap. "Only a secretary, you might say, but the role that even a secretary had back then in the bureaucracy of a (concentration camp) is a significant one," Wantzen said.

☆ Germany convicts 97-year-old woman of Nazi war crimes - media
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BERLIN, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of having contributed to the murder of over 11,000 people during her time working as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two, NDR broadcaster and other media reported on Tuesday. The district court in the northern town of Itzehoe handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence, according to the report. She was sentenced under juvenile law, owing to the fact that she was only 18-years old at the time of the crimes. She worked at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. They included prisoners of war and Jews caught up in the Nazis' extermination campaign.

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