AFP :
A former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp, now 96, faces a German court on Thursday charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people-the first such case in recent years against a woman.
Irmgard Furchner was a teenager when she worked in the camp director’s office at Stutthof in occupied Poland, near the city of Danzig, known today as Gdansk.
Furchner “assisted those responsible at the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war in her function as a stenographer and secretary to the camp commander” between June 1943 and April 1945, according to prosecutors.
A minor at the time of the alleged crimes, she is charged with “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases” as well as complicity in attempted murder, added prosecutors from the northern city of Itzehoe.
