Why was ex-Nazi camp secretary Irmgard F. only convicted after 78 years? - DW News

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A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

Irmgard F. was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence for being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five cases.

The court said judges were convinced that F. "knew and, through her work as a stenographer in the commandant's office of the Stutthof concentration camp from June 1, 1943, to April 1, 1945, deliberately supported the fact that 10,505 prisoners were cruelly killed by gassings, by hostile conditions in the camp,'' by transportation to the Auschwitz death camp and by being sent on death marches at the end of the war.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Lots of complications, including her being good at hiding...

But the important thing is that she was covicted, even after all this time.

I don't doubt that the recent discovery of redneck rightists had some influence.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. OH, I am hearing from some liberals this prosecution is actually "persecution"!

FUCK HER!

[Ziggysmom]

3. I wish she has been sentenced to some jail time. I don't care how old she is, damn Nazi!