IRMGARD FURCHNER is accused of complicity in murders, concerning more than 11,000 cases, at the Stutthof concentration camp, in the current Poland.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
This is one of the last trials relating to the Nazi era in Germany. Two years suspended prison sentence was required Tuesday, November 22 against a former secretary of a 97 -year -old Nazi concentration camp. IRMGARD FURCHNER is accused of complicity in murders, concerning more than 11,000 cases, at the Stutthof concentration camp in current Poland. She has been tried since September 2021 before the court of Itzehoe, in northern Germany.
The trial had started in a incredible manner, when the accused fled on the day of the hearings. The nonagenarian had not presented herself in court as planned. It had been found after a few hours.
Aged 18 to 19 years old at the time of the facts, the accused, who worked as a dactylographer and secretary of the camp commander, Paul Werner Hoppe, occupied a “essential meaning” position in the inhuman system of the inhuman system of the inhuman system of the inhuman system of the inhuman system of Camp, said the Maxi Wantzen prosecutor on Tuesday during her requisitions. “She made sure that the camp could continue to work,” she added.
A Stutthof, a camp near the city of Gdansk (Dantzig at the time), where around 65,000 people perished, “Jewish prisoners, Polish factories and Soviet prisoners of war” were systematically murdered, according to the Historians.
Seventy-seven years after the end of the Second World War, Germany continues to seek former Nazi criminals still alive.