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German court rejects appeal of former secretary of Nazi death camp
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, Germany, December 20, 2022
A GERMAN court rejected an appeal today by a 99-year-old woman who has been convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders at the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner, a secretary to the camp’s SS commander, had her appeal against her two-year suspended sentence, issued by the Itzehoe state court in northern Germany in December 2022, rejected by the Federal Court of Justice.
She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped to run the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk. She was convicted of being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five cases.
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