Woman, 95, charged with complicity in murder of 10,000 during Holocaust
A woman who worked as a secretary at a Nazi-German concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people during the Holocaust.
German prosecutors said that the 95-year-old who has not been named was a stenographer and a secretary to the commander of Stutthof concentration camp in what was then Nazi-occupied Poland.
Prosecutors in the city of Itzehoe said she is accused of “assisting” in the systematic killings of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet prisoners of war between 1943 and 1945 and “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases” as well as complicity in attempted murder.
Prosecutors said the woman is accused of “assisting” in the systematic killings of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet prisoners of war between 1943 and 1945 and “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases” as well as complicity in attempted murder.
Because she was a minor at the time, the woman will face a juvenile court.
Last year another former guard at the Stutthof concentration camp was found guilty of being an accessory to murder during WWII.
Bruno Dey, 93, was given a two-year suspended sentence for complicity in the murder of 5,232 inmates at the camp where he served as a watchtower guard.
Last year 93-year-old Bruno Dey was found guilty of ‘complicity’ in mass murder and given a two-year suspended sentence.
Established in September 1939, Stutthof as the first and longest operating camp and became infamous for its horrific treatment of prisoners.
It is estimated that about 65,000 people died there of malnutrition, exhaustion with forced labour, chilling, illness, or were shot or gassed.
