A 97-year-old woman has appealed her case after she was found to have been an accessory in the murder of 10,500 prisoners at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

On December 20, 2022, the Itzehoe Regional Court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein sentenced 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, a former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk ...

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 member of a death camp that murdered 10,505 ...

Irmgard Furchner, a German secretary who dutifully served the commandant of a Nazi concentration camp, a chapter of her early life that was exhumed decades later when she was convicted of being an ...

A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis ...

Furchner made headlines in 2022 when she was convicted by a German court for her role at the Stutthof concentration camp.

She later earned a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a typist at a bank before being hired at Stutthof, according to the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung. The Stutthof camp opened in 1939.

Nazi Typist Dubbed 'Secretary of Evil' Found Guilty of Complicity in 10,500 Murders Irmgard Furchner, 97, was a teenage shorthand typist at Stutthof concentration camp in Northern Poland from 1943 ...

Former Stutthof concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner, 97, found guilty by German court of complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people; gets two-year suspended sentence ...

A 97-year-old woman was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp during WWII.

A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary was convicted on Tuesday for her role in the murder of thousands of people, in what could be one of the country's last trials ...

Irmgard Furchner, accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function, appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, Dec. 20 ...