{"id":215558,"date":"2022-12-20T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/?p=215558"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:07:06","slug":"97-year-old-nazi-typist-convicted-of-aiding-over-10500-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/en\/latest-news\/2022-12-20\/97-year-old-nazi-typist-convicted-of-aiding-over-10500-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"97-year-old Nazi typist convicted of aiding over 10,500 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Berlin, Dec 20 (EFE).- A 97-year-old woman who was a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II was on Tuesday convicted by a German court of complicity in the murder of over 10,500 people.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 97-year-old defendant Irmgard F. sits in an ambulance chair behind a plexiglass screen in the courtroom during her trial at the Regional Court in Itzehoe, Germany, 19 October 2021. EFE\/EPA\/Christian Charisius \/ POOL<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n


Irmgard Furchner, also found guilty of the attempted murder of another five people, was given a two-year suspended jail sentence as requested by prosecutors at the Itzehoe Provincial Court, some 58 kilometers (36 miles) north of Hamburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Furchner worked as the secretary for a Nazi commander at the Stutthof concentration camp, which operated in Nazi-occupied Poland, near Gdansk, from June 1943 to April 1945 when she was aged 18 and 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Because she was a teenager at the time of her crimes, Furchner was tried at the juvenile Itzehoe court in a trial that lasted 40 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial was delayed after the defendant reportedly attempted to flee ahead of the hearing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


Fourteen witnesses gave statements, eight of them were survivors of the Stutthof concentration camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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