Irmgard Furchner, the first woman in decades to stand trial for Nazi crimes, was sentenced to a suspended two-year prison sentence by a court in Itzehoe, Germany, on Tuesday, the BBC reported.
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Irmgard Furchner, accused of being involved in an agency that helped run the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, appeared at her trial in Itzech, Germany. Photo: Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA
Berlin: A 97-year-old ex-Nazi typist and stenographer who worked in a concentration camp in Poland has been convicted of participating in the murder of 10,505 people during the Holocaust, media reports say.
Irmgard Furchner, the first woman in decades to stand trial for Nazi crimes, was sentenced on Tuesday to a two-year suspended sentence by a court in Itzehoe, Germany, the BBC reported.
As a teenager, Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.
Because she was a teenager at the time of the crime, she was tried in juvenile court and her sentence will see her placed on juvenile probation, the court confirmed to CNN.
Some 65,000 people are believed to have died in the horrific conditions at Stutthof, including Jewish prisoners, non-Jewish Poles, and captured Soviet soldiers.
Furchner was found guilty of aiding and abetting the murders of 10,505 people and conspiracy to murder five others, the BBC reported.
From June 1944, Stutthof Prison used a variety of methods to murder detainees, and thousands died in the gas chambers there.
The court heard statements from survivors of the camp, some of whom died during the trial.
When the trial began in September 2021, Feuschner fled from her nursing home and was eventually found by police on a street in Hamburg.
In her address to the court, Furchner said: “I’m sorry for what happened. I regret that I was in Stutthof at the time … that’s all I can say.”
Her trial could be Germany’s last for Nazi-era crimes, although some cases are still under investigation, according to the BBC.
In recent years, two other cases have come to court for Nazi crimes committed in Stutthof.
