Public prosecutors in Germany on Friday indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role in supporting the Nazis as a secretary in a concentration camp during the Second World War, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity i
95-year-old woman charged in Germany for being accessory to murder during Nazi rule ANI | Updated: Feb 06, 2021 05:20 IST
Berlin [Germany], February 6 (ANI): Public prosecutors in Germany on Friday indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role in supporting the Nazis as a secretary in a concentration camp during the Second World War, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity in attempted murders.
According to the New York Times, the woman was identified as Irmgard F under German privacy laws. Her indictment followed a five-year-old investigation. As she was under 21 at the time of the accused offenses, prosecutors said that she would be tried in a juvenile court, where she is likely to receive a milder sentence.
German prosecutors charge 95-year-old female Nazi camp secretary over murder of 10,000 people
The woman worked as a secretary at the Stutthof camp, 20 miles from the Polish city of Gdansk, between June 1943 and April 1945 The main entry to Stutthof concentration camp, better known as the Death Gate . (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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Updated: Feb 6, 2021, 06:33 PM IST
Public prosecutors in Germany on Friday indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role in supporting the Nazis as a secretary in a concentration camp during the Second World War, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity in attempted murders.
According to the New York Times, the woman was identified as Irmgard F under German privacy laws. Her indictment followed a five-year-old investigation. As she was under 21 at the time of the accused offenses, prosecutors said that she would be tried in a juvenile court, where she is likely to receive a milder sen