{"id":835577,"date":"2021-10-01T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835577"},"modified":"2021-10-01T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:59:18","slug":"former-nazi-secretary-charged-with-complicity-in-murder-of-thousands-flees-care-home-ahead-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nazi-secretary-charged-with-complicity-in-murder-of-thousands-flees-care-home-ahead-of-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nazi Secretary, Charged With Complicity In Murder Of Thousands, Flees Care Home Ahead Of Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fformer-nazi-secretary-charged-with-complicity-in-murder-of-thousands-flees-care-home-ahead-of-trial%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=835577&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Stutthof-Trial.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A former Nazi secretary to the commander of a German concentration camp fled her elderly care home on Thursday morning, ahead of a trial where she faces charges for complicity in the murder of 11,000 people while working at the Stutthof camp in northern Germany during World War II.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The woman, 96, identified by German <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/secretary-at-stutthof-nazi-death-camp-goes-on-trial-aged-96\/a-59350734\"><span>media<\/span><\/a><span> as <\/span><span>Irmgard F., worked \u201cas a stenographer and typist in the camp director\u2019s office at the Stutthof concentration camp between June 1943 and April 1945,\u201d according to German prosecutors. In that role, the woman, then around 18 or 19 years old, \u201cassisted those responsible for the camp in the systematic murder of prisoners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But just as she was set to appear in court, the woman was discovered to no longer be at the elderly care home where she has been living. Police subsequently issued an arrest warrant, and found her hours later at an \u201cunderground station,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-nazi-death-camp-secretary-caught-after-fleeing-trial\/a-59358919\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span> Deutsche Welle.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She is now being held in detention, something authorities previously did not do because she wasn\u2019t expected to try and \u201cevade the trial,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-crime-trials-courts-germany-6e3b2dc5f61d24e3b658ad3bac0b48ec\">according<\/a> to a court spokesperson, reports the Associated Press.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stutthof, which opened in 1933, operated first as an internment camp, then a labor camp, then finally as a concentration camp beginning in 1942. As many as 100,000 people were kept there, and tens of thousands of people died, including from gas chambers, typhus, death marches, and forced injections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conditions in Stutthof were beyond any description,\u201d Steven Springfield, a survivor of the camp, said in an interview <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/stutthof\">archived<\/a> at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. \u201cPeople were dying left and right from hunger, people woke up in the morning next to you, people were dead, emaciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the war dragged on, conditions in the camp deteriorated. \u201cAs bad as it was before, now the Germans were letting their anger out on the few remaining Jews because it was clear to them at this time that they were losing the war,\u201d said the Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n<p><span>The woman, who has said she didn\u2019t know of the killings, was a civilian worker when at Stutthof, making the trial rare, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-58747082\"><span>reports<\/span><\/a><span> the BBC. The circumstances are even more unusual due to her attempt to flee.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShe aims to make a mockery of our system of justice and does not feel bound by the law here in Germany,\u201d said an attorney for the plaintiff after she fled.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The woman\u2019s testimony has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-58747082\"><span>previously been used<\/span><\/a><span> in other Nazi trials, including in the trial of Stutthof commandant Paul-Werner Hoppe, who received several years in prison for his crimes and died decades ago. \u201cIn 1954, she said that on a daily basis, Hoppe had dictated letters and radio messages to her. Beyond that, however, she says that she knew nothing of the Nazi killing machinery that, in immediate proximity to her place of work, was being used to kill tens of thousands of people,\u201d according to Deutsche Welle.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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