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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Nazi secretary, 97, guilty of role in murder of 10,500 at concentration camp

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A 97-year-old former secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of contributing to the murder of more than 10,500 people during the Second World War

The district court in the northern town of Itzehoe handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and the attempted murder of five people. The indictment had originally charged Furchner with aiding and abetting the murders of 11,412 people.

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