A court convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what could be Germany's last Holocaust trial. | via philstarlife
Furchner had tried to abscond as the proceedings were set to begin in September 2021, fleeing the retirement home where she lives.
An estimated 65,000 people died at the camp near today's Gdansk, including"Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war," prosecutors said.Between June 1943 and April 1945, Furchner took the dictation and handled the correspondence of camp commander Paul Werner Hoppe while her husband was a fellow SS officer at the camp.
Stefan Lode, a lawyer representing three survivors who live in the United States, said they were"satisfied that a verdict was reached." Moreover, food and water shortages and the spread of deadly diseases including typhus were intentionally maintained and immediately apparent, the court found.
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