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re: The Jewish Schindler: Woman Posed as Countess to Fool NAZIS & Save 10,000 Lives
Secretary to SS Commander of Stutthof Concentration Camp Convicted
Holocaust survivor rebukes former concentration camp worker's court defence
A Holocaust survivor has said it is an "impossibility" that a former concentration camp secretary did not know of the atrocities that were committed there during World War II.
BBC News 21 DEC 2022.
Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders
Survivor and co-plaintiff Manfred Goldberg returned to Stutthof in 2017 with the Prince and Princess of Wales
On Tuesday, Irmgard Furchner, who was the secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in NAZI-occupied Poland during World War II, was handed a two-year suspended sentence at the Itzehoe state court in northern Germany.
She was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people and alleged to have "aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office".
During the trial Furchner’s defence lawyers had asked for her to be acquitted, claiming the evidence hadn’t shown beyond doubt that she knew about the systematic killings at the camp, meaning there was no proof of intent as required for criminal liability.
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