German court convicts 97-year-old woman of working as secretary to

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman accessory to over 10,000 murders for her role as secretary to a Nazi SS commander stationed at a concentration camp in World War II.

The court’s Tuesday ruling found that Irmgard Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp in what is now Poland, according to the Associated Press. Furcher argued she had no knowledge of the 10,505 murders that she was accused of being an accessory to. Prosecutors countered that the muster point for new arrivals to Stutthof was visible from her office window, and the crematoriums at the camp were running constantly during her time there.

Judge Dominik Gross found that it was “simply beyond all imagination” that she was not aware of the murders going on at the camp.

Furchner was tried in juvenile court, given that she was 18 and 19 during her time at the camp. She was given a two-year suspended sentence, according to the AP.

FORMER NAZI CAMP SECRETARY IN GERMAN TRIAL, 96, ON THE RUN

Irmgard Furchner, accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp function, appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germay, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA)

Furchner reportedly attempted to skip her first hearing related to the trial, leading authorities to detain her. She said she was “sorry” for her actions during her sentencing.

Efraim Zuroff, one of Germany’s top Nazi hunters argued the sentence was as good as could be expected.

“In view of Furchner’s recent statement to the court that she ‘regretted everything,’ we were concerned that the court might accept her defense attorney’s plea for an acquittal,” Zuroff told the AP. “Yet given…