A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of her role in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust, in what could be the final trial of its kind.
Irmgard Furchner worked as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 until the end of Nazi rule in 1945.
She was sentenced on Tuesday to a two-year suspended sentence, according to a spokesman for the court in Itzehoe, north of Germany 🇧🇷
Because Furchner was a teenager at the time of the crimes, the 97-year-old woman’s trial took place before a juvenile court and her sentence will place her on juvenile probation, the court confirmed. to CNN 🇧🇷
furchner ran away weeks before the start of her trial, but was found by authorities after several hours. The procedures finally started at the end of last year.
Tens of thousands of people were held in brutal conditions at Stutthof camp, and more than 60,000 died there, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Stutthof mainly held non-Jewish Poles, as well as large numbers of Jews from the Polish cities of Warsaw and Bialystok and the Nazi-occupied Baltic states, according to the museum.
The Germany rushed to take the perpetrators of Nazi war crimes to justice in recent years, before it’s too late. But experts say only a small proportion of those involved have faced a court.
Source: CNN Brasil
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