German Court Upholds Conviction of 99-Year-Old Woman as Accessory in WWII Concentration Camp Murders
Leipzig, Germany — A 99-year-old woman’s appeal was denied by the Federal Court of Justice, solidifying her conviction as an accessory to over 10,000 murders during her time as a secretary at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. Irmgard Furchner, the woman in question, was originally sentenced in December 2022 to a two-year suspended sentence by a state court in Itzehoe, a decision now upheld against her lawyers’ arguments regarding her awareness …