HOW (GERMANY), 5 (DPA / EP)
A 95-year-old woman has been charged with alleged complicity in more than 10,000 murder cases while serving as secretary of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp in the midst of World War II.
If the case goes to court, the defendant, whose name is unknown, although German media sources identify her as Irmgard F., will submit for two persons to the juvenile court of Itzehoe (state of Schleswig-Holstein, in the north of the country). ). reasons: his advanced age and the fact that he was younger than 21 at the time of the crimes.
In the process, the prosecution will link the woman to the deaths of more than 10,000 prisoners at the concentration camp just outside Danzig, now Gdansk, in then Nazi-occupied Poland.
Born in Pinneberg Township, the woman worked from 1943-45 as secretary to the camp commandant, Paul Werner Hoppe.
Russian troops liberated the camp, the last to be freed from a Nazi presence, in May 1945, when World War II ended. The case has been under investigation since 2016 and there are witnesses in the United States and Israel.
According to a report last year by the national public broadcaster ARD, the woman has been called as a witness several times to prove that all correspondence with the SS economic headquarters went through her office. The woman has admitted taking notes of Hoppe every day, but assured she knew nothing about the massacre that took place a few yards from her office.
In July, a juvenile court in Hamburg convicted a man then 93 years old for his role as a security guard at Stutthof. The court issued a suspended sentence of two years for complicity in murder.