Irmgard Furchner

2022 - 12 - 20

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Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10500 murders (BBC News)

Irmgard Furchner, 97, who worked for a Nazi commandant, is convicted in Germany.

[John Demjanjuk](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12321549)- jailed in 2011 for five years for his part in the murder of more than 28,000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp but released pending an appeal and died the following year aged 91 [Oskar Gröning](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43376105)- the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz", sentenced in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews. As she was only 18 or 19 at the time, she was tried in a special juvenile court. German prosecutors dropped charges against him and his current fate is unknown [Josef S](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58826189)- jailed for five years in June 2022 for assisting in the murder of more than 3,500 prisoners in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He never went to jail, dying in 2018 aged 96 during the appeals process [Reinhold Hanning](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40122610)- former SS guard at Auschwitz convicted of helping to commit mass murder in June 2016 but died a year later aged 95 with appeals still pending [Friedrich Karl Berger](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56140903)- former guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp, deported to Germany from the US in February 2021 aged 95. "But the length should be made to reflect the extraordinary barbarity of being found to be complicit in the murder of more than 10,000 people." Furchner was found guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and complicity in the attempted murder of five others.

97-year-old former Nazi secretary sentenced for involvement in ... (CNN)

A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted for her role in the murder of 10505 people during the Holocaust, ...

But experts say that only a small proportion of those involved ever faced a court. As Furchner was an adolescent at the time of the crimes, the 97-year-old’s trial took place before a juvenile court and her sentence will see her placed into juvenile probation, the court confirmed to CNN. Irmgard Furchner worked as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof camp near Gdansk in Nazi-occupied Poland, from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.

Nazi secretary, 97, convicted for role in 10000 murders at death camp (The Washington Post)

Irmgard Furchner, a stenographer and typist to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, was accused of being a key ...

“Yet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing.” At the time, it said, she testified that she used to type out execution orders for the commandant, Paul Werner Hoppe, and that most of his letters crossed her desk. [fled hours before the start of her trial](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/30/nazi-concentration-camp-secretary-trial-escape-germany/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8) in 2021, remained silent for most of the trial. According to the public broadcaster Many of the victims at Stutthof died by lethal injection or by the camp’s gas chamber. The trial was held in juvenile court because Furchner was 18 and 19 when she worked as a secretary for the SS commander. At least two cases in recent years resulted in people being found guilty of accessory to murder in German courts: Oskar Gröning, a former accountant at Auschwitz, and John Demjanjuk, a former guard at Sobibor. [according to Die Welt](https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article242272907/Nationalsozialismus-97-jaehrige-ehemalige-KZ-Sekretaerin-vor-Gericht.html). At the concentration camp, Polish and Soviet victims including Jews were encircled by electric barbed-wire fences in a wooded, secluded part of northern Poland’s Baltic coast. Furchner’s case draws on the Others died of starvation or disease. She was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence at the Regional Court of Itzehoe in northern Germany, according to a court spokesman.

97-year-old ex-Nazi secretary found guilty of complicity in over ... (Globalnews.ca)

Irmgard Furchner worked as a stenographer and typist at the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 to 1945.

In September 2021, just before the start of her trial, Furchner tried to flee. Stutthof was later used as a so-called “work education camp” where forced labourers, primarily Polish and Soviet citizens, were sent to serve sentences and often died. Furchner was tried in a juvenile court because of her age at the time the crimes took place. His father was killed in the Nazi camp. Various historical experts also provided evidence during the trial. She was often surrounded by doctors.

German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp | CBC ... (CBC.ca)

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10000 cases for her role as a secretary to the SS commander ...

"Yet given her claim that she had no knowledge of the murders being committed in the camp, her regret was far from convincing." Prosecutors in Itzehoe said during the proceedings that Furchner's trial may be the last of its kind. The verdict and sentence were in line with prosecutors' demands.

Irmgard Furchner, 97, convicted of being accessory to more than ... (CTV News)

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of ...

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Who is Irmgard Furchner, 97-year-old ex-secretary of Nazi ... (Firstpost)

Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a stenographer and typist for the Nazi commander of Stutthof concentration camp during World War II, has been found guilty ...

Follow us on [also read] [World](https://www.firstpost.com/category/world) [Germany to cut the ribbon on first LNG terminal](https://www.firstpost.com/world/germany-to-cut-the-ribbon-on-first-lng-terminal-11823951.html) Hördler also gave evidence which was provided by Furchner’s husband in 1954 where he had said: “At the Stutthof camp people were gassed. Who is Irmgard Furchner and what is she accused of? As per AP report, from mid-1944, a large number of Jews from “ghettos in the Baltics and from the Auschwitz network of concentration camps”, as well as thousands of Polish civilians captured in the Nazi suppression of the Warsaw uprising were detained in Stutthof. “I regret that I was in Stutthof at the time – that’s all I can say,” she was quoted as saying by BBC. The court also said it is convinced that Furchner “knew and, through her work as a stenographer in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof concentration camp from 1 June 1943, to 1 April 1945, deliberately supported the fact that 10,505 prisoners were cruelly killed by gassings, by hostile conditions in the camp”, as per Associated Press (AP) report. What had happened at Stutthof concentration camp? Furchner, who was then around 17 and 18 years old, has been accused of aiding and abetting “those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office”. Furchner, dubbed “the secretary of evil” by German media, has previously claimed she was not aware of the details of the atrocities that took place in the Stutthof camp, as per The Washington Post. She was tried in a special juvenile court owing to her age at the time of the crimes. Irmgard Furchner was employed as a stenographer and typist for the Nazi commander of Stutthof concentration camp, which was located near modern-day Gdansk in Poland. Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a stenographer and typist for the Nazi commander of Stutthof concentration camp during World War II, has been found guilty of ‘aiding and abetting’ the killing of over 10,000 people and complicity in the attempted murder of five more