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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

97-year-old former Nazi secretary seeks acquittal in German court

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A lawyer representing a 97-year-old former secretary for a Nazi concentration camp commander has asked that his client be acquitted, claiming she did not know what was happening at the camp.

The secretary, Irmgard Furchner, was a secretary for the commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in what is now northern Poland. She has been on trial for more than a year in northern Germany, according to the Associated Press.

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