A former secretary in a Nazi concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the murder of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said Friday.
The unnamed woman, who was a minor when she was in the Nazi concentration camp Stutthof between June 1943 and April 1945, was charged with “complicity in murder in more than 10,000 cases” and of complicity in attempted murder, according to CNN.
The woman “is accused of assisting those responsible in the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war in her capacity as stenographer and secretary to the camp commandant,” the prosecutors said in a statement. reported.
She will reportedly appear before a juvenile court for her minor status at the time of the alleged crimes.
Thirteen other cases related to concentration camps Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof are being investigated by German prosecutors.
A 93-year-old former security guard at Stutthof was convicted in 2020 of thousands of counts for complicity in murder. He was tried in a juvenile court since he was 17 when the crimes were committed, and was given a two-year suspended sentence, according to CNN.
During the Holocaust, an estimated 65,000 people were murdered in the Stutthof concentration camp, located near the Polish city of Gdansk.