Germany’s top court upholds the conviction of a former Nazi camp secretary, rejecting her appeal against a two-year suspended sentence.
Germany’s highest court upholds the conviction of a 99-year-old former Nazi camp secretary for her role in the deaths of over 10,000 people.
Irmgard Furchner was handed a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 for her role in what prosecutors called the “cruel and malicious murder” of prisoners at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland.“The conviction of the defendant… to a two-year suspended sentence is final,” presiding judge Gabriele Cirener said.
Furchner tried to abscond from her trial as the proceedings were set to begin in September 2021, fleeing the retirement home where she was living.Although the camp’s abysmal conditions and hard labour claimed the most lives, the Nazis also operated gas chambers and execution-by-shooting facilities to exterminate hundreds of people deemed unfit for labour.
Furchner was a teenager when she committed her crimes and was therefore tried in a juvenile court — a decision that the Federal Supreme Court also found to be correct. “It’s not about putting her behind bars for the rest of her life. It’s about a perpetrator having to answer for her actions,” he said.
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