On Tuesday, a German court convicted Irmgard Furchner, 97, to a two-year suspended sentence for her role in the murder of 10,505 people at a Nazi concentration camp.
“It is very important for the survivors and for us today that this trial was brought to an end .. and that there was a verdict which established guilt.”
– Maxi Wantzen, State Prosecutor
Between 1943 and 1945, Furchner worked as a secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland, where 65,000 people died.
Furchner oversaw the paperwork that “was necessary for the organisation of the camp” to perform its “systematic acts of killing”.
