Former secretary at Nazi camp charged over murder of 10,000 people...
 

...because she was a minor at the time, she’ll be tried in a juvenile court...





German prosecutors have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a woman.

The 95-year-old accused had worked at the Stutthof camp near what was Danzig, now Gdansk, in then Nazi-occupied Poland.

Prosecutors did not name the woman, but the regional broadcaster NDR identified her as Irmgard F, who lives in a elderly care home in the north of Hamburg.

The suspect “is accused of having assisted those responsible at the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war in her function as a stenographer and secretary to the camp commander” between June 1943 and April 1945, the prosecutors said in a statement.

The woman, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, is charged with “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases” as well as complicity in attempted murder, added prosecutors from the northern city of Itzehoe.

“Given that some inmates survived their stay in the camp despite the hostile conditions, some of the acts has to be assessed judicially as attempted murder,” they added.

...full article...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...f-10000-people

Considering the most recent case in which a guard got found guilty and given a two year suspended sentence and she was classed as a juvenile at the time and will be tried in a juvenile court surely this a a pointless trial as it won’t change the facts or achieve any meaningful justice

i mean, why sentence those who are in their 90's for too long sentences which they won't sit out anyway or highly unlikely given their old age

They took there to get her

...there have been other similar cases tried in a juvenile court and some at the same concentration camp...I haven’t yet read up on them all but I will do...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-youth-court

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/w...d-germany.html