One of Germany’s highest courts has upheld a two-year suspended sentence given to a 99-year-old woman who had worked as a secretary to the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp in what is likely to be one of the last verdicts of its kind.
Irmgard Furchner had been convicted of aiding and abetting more than 10,500 murders that had been carried out during her stint at the Stutthof camp, near Gdansk in German-occupied Poland, from June 1943 to April 1945. She was given a relatively mild youth sentence because she had been younger than 21 at the time of the murders.
During the trial, which concluded a few days before Christmas 2022, Furchner said she regretted the atrocities that had been committed at Stutthof and