In what may be one of the last convictions of its kind, a 99-year-old Nazi concentration camp secretary lost her appeal in Germany for complicity in the deaths of 10,000 people.
Irmgard Furchner was given a 2 year suspended sentence in 2022 in what prosecutors characterized as “the cruel and malicious murder” of thousands at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland.
After an appeal, the higher court upheld the sentence.
“The conviction of the defendant… to a two-year suspended sentence is final,” presiding judge Gabriele Cirener says.
While at the campp between 1943 and 1945, Furchner took dictation and handled camp commander Paul Werner Hoppe’s communication.
