Prosecutors in Itzehoe did not name the woman, but said in a statement that they charged her with “complicity and complicity in murder in more than 10,000 cases,” as well as complicity in attempted murder.
The woman, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, “is accused of assisting those responsible in the camp in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet prisoners of war in her duties as stenographer and secretary.” to the camp commandant, “between June 1943 and April 1945, the prosecutors said in a statement.
She will appear before a juvenile court because she was under 18 when she served in Stutthof.
It is estimated that about 65,000 people were murdered during the Holocaust in the Stutthof concentration camp, near the Polish city now called Gdansk.
According to the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, German prosecutors are investigating 13 other cases related to the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps.
He was also tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 years old in Stutthof at the time.
Stutthof was first established by the Nazis in 1939 and subsequently housed a total of 115,000 prisoners, more than half of whom died there. About 22,000 were transferred from Stutthof to other Nazi camps.