97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary found guilty of complicity in over 10,000 murders
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Berlin — A 97-year-old woman in Germany was found guilty on Tuesday of aiding and abetting the murders of over 10,500 people at a Nazi concentration camp and given a two-year suspended jail sentence. The verdict came over a year after the trial — which could be the last in Germany for Nazi crimes — began.
According to the court's criminal chamber, Irmgard Furchner worked as a civilian typist in the commandant's office at the Stutthof concentration camp near the town of Gdańsk, in Nazi-occupied Poland, from June 1943 to April 1945. She was convicted of assisting those in charge of the camp with the systematic killing of thousands of inmates.
During World War II, the Nazis imprisoned more than a 100,000 mainly Jews in deplorable conditions at the Stutthof camp. Around 65,000 people died there, according to historians.
