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A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War.
A German court is expected to deliver its verdict Tuesday in the case of a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary accused of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people.
Despite her claim she was merely a stenographer, Irmgard Furchner was convicted of aiding and abetting the regime, but was given only two months suspended prison sentence since she wasn't legally an adult at the time
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Starving prisoners forced to eat each other to survive and sadistic torture shows . These are the details of what life was like at the Nazi Stutthof camp.