A German court convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi death camp secretary in what could be one of the last sentences handed down for Nazi war crimes.
Irmgard F., a former secretary at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp was given a two-year suspended sentence for her complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at the camp.
The Stuttof concentration camp was the first Nazi death camp set up outside German borders in 1939 and the last to be liberated by the Allies on May 9, 1945.
It’s estimated that between 63,000 and 65,000 prisoners at the Stutthof concentration camp died as a result of murder, starvation, epidemics, extreme labor conditions, brutal and forced evacuations, and a lack of medical attention. The majority of the deaths at the camp were imprisoned Jews, however, the camp also included Polish partisans and Soviet-Russian prisoners of war.
Irmgard F. was tried in a German juvenile court due to her being 18-19 at the time of her crimes. She said little throughout her trial only dating at the end that she was “sorry for everything that happened. I regret that I was in Stutthof at the time. I can’t say anything else.”
Irmgard F, however, was also caught attempting to flee her elderly care home in an effort to escape standing trial.
