She was 18 and 19 years old when she worked at a concentration camp in Poland. She is nearly 100 years old today. 97-year-old former secretary at Nazi Stutthof death camp convicted by German court
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 II.
The suspended sentence was because of her age and health, and because of her age when she was working at Stutthof she was tried under juvenile rules.
Stutthof is not one of the camps that is widely known.
More than 60,000 people died in the camp near Gdansk, in today’s Poland, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website — many by lethal injection and in the camp’s gas chamber, others from disease or starvation.
Other people not involved in the killing have been convicted of "aiding and abetting."
Oskar Gröning, who worked as an accountant in Auschwitz, and John Demjanjuk, who worked as a guard at Sobibor, were both found guilty of accessory to murder in German courts.
So she was 18 during the war, and is nearly 100 today. That is why people believe this will be the last trial. Almost no one from that time is still alive. The survivors of course are younger, in their 80s and 90s. (Hat tip to Not the Bee.)
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