97-year-old former Nazi secretary sentenced for involvement in more than 10,000 murders - CNN

CNN  — 

A 97-year-old erstwhile caput astatine a Nazi attraction campy has been convicted for her relation successful the execution of 10,505 radical during the Holocaust, successful what could beryllium the last proceedings of its kind.

Irmgard Furchner worked arsenic a stenographer and typist astatine the Stutthof campy adjacent Gdansk successful Nazi-occupied Poland, from 1943 until the extremity of the Nazi authorities successful 1945.

She was sentenced Tuesday to a two-year suspended sentence, according to a spokesperson astatine the tribunal successful Itzehoe, bluish Germany.

As Furchner was an teen astatine the clip of the crimes, the 97-year-old’s proceedings took spot earlier a juvenile tribunal and her condemnation volition spot her placed into juvenile probation, the tribunal confirmed to CNN.

Furchner went connected the run weeks earlier her proceedings was owed to begin, but was recovered by authorities aft respective hours. Proceedings yet began precocious past year.

Tens of thousands of radical were held successful brutal conditions astatine the Stutthof camp, and much than 60,000 died there, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Stutthof chiefly held non-Jewish Poles, arsenic good arsenic a ample fig of Jews from the Polish cities of Warsaw and Bialystok and from Nazi-occupied Baltic states, according to the museum.

Germany has raced to bring the perpetrators of Nazi warfare crimes to justness successful caller years, earlier it is excessively late. But experts accidental that lone a tiny proportionality of those progressive ever faced a court.