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German court convicts 97-year-old ex-Nazi camp typist

Furchner was sentenced under juvenile law, owing to the fact she was only 18 years old at the time of the crimes [File: Christian Charisius/Pool via Reuters]

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old woman of complicity in the murder of more than 10,500 people during her time working as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

The state court in the town of Itzehoe, in northern Germany, handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence in line with prosecutors’ demands.

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