Known as the 'secretary of evil', Irmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp and was convicted of being complicit in the death of over 11,000 people
A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder of over 11,000 people when she was the secretary to a Nazi SS commander at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
The woman worked as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp and was regarded as having contributed to the murder of over 11,000 people.She worked at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. Some 65,000 people died of starvation and disease or in the gas chamber at Stutthof near Gdansk, in today's Poland. They included prisoners of war and Jews caught up in the Nazis' extermination campaign. Furchner was alleged to have “aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office.
In her closing statement, Furchner said she was sorry for what had happened and regretted that she had been at Stutthof at the time.Initially a collection point for Jews and non-Jewish Poles removed from Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, Stutthof was used as a so-called “work education camp” where forced labourers, primarily Polish and Soviet citizens, were sent to serve sentences and often died.
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