{"id":1781899,"date":"2022-12-20T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781899"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:32:58","slug":"97-year-old-former-nazi-secretary-convicted-as-accessory-to-10505-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/97-year-old-former-nazi-secretary-convicted-as-accessory-to-10505-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"97-Year-Old Former Nazi Secretary Convicted As Accessory To 10,505 Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F97-year-old-former-nazi-secretary-convicted-as-accessory-to-10505-murders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A 97-year-old woman who worked at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted on Monday after undergoing a trial that lasted longer than a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Between 1943 and 1945, when Irmgard Furchner was 18 and 19 years old, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked<\/a> as a secretary for Paul-Werner Hoppe, the Stutthof concentration camp\u2019s commandant. Because of her age at the time, she was put on trial in a juvenile court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furchner was given a two-year suspended jail sentence after being found to be an accessory to the murder of 10,505 prisoners and the attempted murder of five other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe promotion of these acts by the accused took place through the completion of paperwork\u201d in the camp commander\u2019s office, a court statement reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis activity was necessary for the organization of the camp and the execution of the cruel, systematic acts of killing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By January 1942, Stutthof was a typical concentration camp. More than 60,000 people ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/stutthof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> there. They were either killed in gas chambers or by lethal injections, and many died from typhus epidemics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furchner\u2019s trial was held in northern Germany in the town of Itzehoe. In September last year, the proceedings were delayed because she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/former-nazi-concentration-camp-secretary-96-faces-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fled<\/a> from her nursing home. She didn\u2019t appear in court and was later taken into custody by law enforcement and given an electronic tag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The trial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included<\/a> testimony from 30 survivors, as well as family members of Stutthof camp prisoners. Historians said Furchner was fully aware of prisoners being tortured and killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The judge, along with court authorities, went to the camp\u2019s site and saw where Furchner would have sat and worked at the time. They found that she fully understood what was happening to people at the camp and therefore was an active participant in the atrocities. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Furchner\u2019s role \u201cwas necessary for the organization of the camp and the implementation of these cruel and systematic killing acts,\u201d the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/former-nazi-camp-secretary-97-found-guilty-in-what-could-be-final-holocaust-trial-11671541582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She said she was sorry for what had happened and had regrets about working at the Stutthuf camp in a closing remark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn view of Furchner\u2019s recent statement to the court that she \u2018regretted everything,\u2019 we were concerned that the court might accept her defense attorney\u2019s plea for an acquittal,\u201d Efraim Zuroff, the leading Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/prisons-dceae7a28dfdee9a869bd8fe8a75c91a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cYet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 97-year-old woman who worked at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted on Monday after undergoing a trial that lasted longer than a year.\u00a0 Between 1943 and 1945, when Irmgard Furchner was 18 and 19 years old, she worked as a secretary for Paul-Werner Hoppe, the Stutthof concentration camp\u2019s commandant. 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