- A 95-year-old German woman was charged Friday with being complicit in the murders of 10,000 people.
- The charges stem from the woman’s work as a Nazi concentration camp secretary when she was a minor.
- She has long claimed she didn’t know about the mass-extermination of prisoners at the camp.
A 95-year-old German woman was charged on Friday with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, for her work as a Nazi concentration camp secretary during the second world war, according to CNN.
While the woman has not been publicly named, due to Germany’s privacy laws, a reporter with German public broadcaster NDR interviewed her in 2019, and referred to her as “Irmgard F.”
Prosecutors said Irmgard worked as a stenographer and secretary to the commander of the Stutthof camp from June 1943 to April 1945, according to CNN.
In that capacity, she “is accused of having assisted those responsible at the camp in the systemic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans, and Soviet Russian prisoners of war.”
According to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel, the Stutthof camp was established by the Nazis in 1939, just outside of the Polish city of Danzig (now Gdansk). Of the estimated 115,000 people that were housed at the camp, 65,000 died. Another 22,000 were transferred to other camps.
Yad Vashem said conditions at Stutthof were “unbearable” and that “starvation and disease were rampant.”
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