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Liam Buckler & Georgina J dikovska

'Secretary of evil' Nazi camp worker, 97, appeals conviction over 10,505 murders

A 97-year-old Nazi camp worker has appealed against her conviction after she was given a two-year suspended jail sentence for aiding the murder of 10,505 victims.

Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary at a Nazi SS death camp, was sentenced at the Itzehoe Regional Court on Tuesday last week following a 14-month trial.

But just days after the verdict, she has appealed her conviction at Germany's supreme criminal court, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).

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