Irmgard Furchner

Irmgard Furchner, 97, who worked at Stutthof concentration camp during second world war, given two-year suspended sentence.

No one in their right mind would send a 97-year-old to prison, but the sentence should reflect the severity of the crimes. [Poland](https://www.theguardian.com/world/poland), in what was then territory that had been annexed by Germany. Everything was documented and progress reports, including how much human hair had been harvested, sent to her office,” he said. “She is indirectly guilty, even if she was only sitting in the office,” he said. She was tried in a juvenile court owing to her age at the time the crimes were committed. Having failed to turn up at court, she was found by police hours later on the outskirts of Hamburg, after which she was held in custody for five days and fitted with an electronic wrist tag.

A 97-year-old former Nazi death camp secretary was today handed a two-year suspended sentence in Germany over her complicity in the murder of more than ...

She was put in a ghetto with her mother and sister before being sent to Stutthof in August 1944. The testimony shared by survivors during this trial has been harrowing, and their bravery in reliving such horrific memories must be commended. 'We had cannibalism in the camp. No one in their right mind would send a 97-year-old to prison, but the sentence should reflect the severity of the crimes. 'In the Stutthof concentration camp, all prisoners, men, women and children, were obliged to work. More than 60,000 people were killed there by being given lethal injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts, shot or starved. They had erected an enormous gallows with eight nooses hanging down, then one by one we had to watch these innocent men being hanged.' Furchner had tried to abscond as the trial in the northern town of Itzehoe was set to begin in September 2021, fleeing the retirement home where she lives and heading to a metro station. Others incarcerated there included criminals, political prisoners, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses. From mid-1944, it was filled with tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos being cleared by the Nazis in the Baltics as well as from Auschwitz, which was overflowing, and thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw uprising. But Manfred Goldberg (pictured), who survived eight months in the Stutthof camp as a slave worker, said Furchner's suspended sentence - which means she will not serve time in prison - was a 'mistake' and is the same sentence a shoplifter would receive But Manfred Goldberg, who survived eight months in the Stutthof camp as a slave worker, said Furchner's two-year suspended sentence – which means she will not serve time in prison – was a 'mistake' and is the same sentence a shoplifter would receive.

Irmgard Furchner, a stenographer and typist to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, was accused of being a key ...

“Yet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing.” At the time, it said, she testified that she used to type out execution orders for the commandant, Paul Werner Hoppe, and that most of his letters crossed her desk. [fled hours before the start of her trial](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/30/nazi-concentration-camp-secretary-trial-escape-germany/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8) in 2021, remained silent for most of the trial. According to the public broadcaster Many of the victims at Stutthof died by lethal injection or by the camp’s gas chamber. The trial was held in juvenile court because Furchner was 18 and 19 when she worked as a secretary for the SS commander. At least two cases in recent years resulted in people being found guilty of accessory to murder in German courts: Oskar Gröning, a former accountant at Auschwitz, and John Demjanjuk, a former guard at Sobibor. [according to Die Welt](https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article242272907/Nationalsozialismus-97-jaehrige-ehemalige-KZ-Sekretaerin-vor-Gericht.html). At the concentration camp, Polish and Soviet victims including Jews were encircled by electric barbed-wire fences in a wooded, secluded part of northern Poland’s Baltic coast. Furchner’s case draws on the Others died of starvation or disease. She was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence at the Regional Court of Itzehoe in northern Germany, according to a court spokesman.

A 97-year-old German woman is given a two-year suspended prison term over her role as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

She was alleged to have "aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant's office". - Furchner was sentenced as a juvenile as she was 18 years old at the time - It was alleged she "aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned"

The 97-year-old was found to have been complicit in the killing of more than 10000 people during the Holocaust.

It took 40 days for Furchner to break her silence in the trial. It has been estimated that between 63,000 and 65,000 people were killed at the Stuffhof while it was active between 1939 and 1945. The long trial process, which included trips to the camp grounds with historian Stefan Hördler, saw evidence that despite Furchner working in an administrative role, she knew what was happening at the concentration camp. There have been an increased number of trials since 2011, when Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk was found guilty of more than 27,000 counts of accessory to murder. At the age of 96, Furchner was charged with more than 10,000 counts of accessory to murder in 2021. Imgard Furchner was found to have been complicit in the killing of more than 10,000 people during World War Two while she worked for the Nazi Party at the Stutthof concentration camp.

Irmgard Furchner was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10000 people as a secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp.

In her closing statement, Furchner said she was sorry for what had happened and regretted that she had been at Stutthof at the time. She was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people and alleged to have "aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office". A Holocaust survivor has said it is an "impossibility" that a former concentration camp secretary did not know of the atrocities that were committed there during