成人快手

A 97 year-old German woman has been convicted for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people during the Second World War.

Irmgard Furchner, was taken on as a teenaged shorthand typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945. A site where some 65,000 people are thought to have died in horrendous conditions.

Furchner, the first woman to be tried for Nazi crimes in decades, was given a two-year suspended jail term.
Her trial may well be the last to take place in Germany into Nazi-era crimes.

Although she was a civilian worker, the judge agreed she was fully aware of what was going on at the camp.

The court ordered that pictures of Irmgard Furchner should be blurred.

Moritz Vormbaum, a professor of criminal and modern legal history at the University of M眉nster, spoke to Newshour about the trial.

"It is very rare [for a woman to be put on trial] however, we did have trials against women who were guards in women's concentration camps as early as the 1940s. This case is also different because she was not in the camps but outside as a secretary."

(Photo: Defendant Irmgard F, a former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp attends her trial in a courtroom in Itzehoe, Germany, December 20, 2022. Credit: Christian Charisius via Reuters)

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