German Court Rejects Appeal by 99-Year-Old Former Secretary to SS Camp Commandant
Published on August 20, 2024
A German court rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old former secretary to an SS concentration camp commandant on Aug. 20 over her conviction of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence by a state court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, in December 2022. She was found to have been part of the staff that helped run the Stutthof camp near Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland where more than 60,000 people were killed. Furchner was convicted of being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five....