A 97-year-old former typist at Stutthof concentration camp in present-day Poland was found guilty on Tuesday of complicity in more than 10,000 murders. The court of Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein sentenced Irmgard F. to a juvenile sentence of two years suspended. F. worked from June 1943 to April 1945 as a civilian employee at Stutthof headquarters near Danzig. In doing so, she helped those in charge of the concentration camp to systematically kill prisoners.
According to the central office responsible for investigating Nazi crimes in Ludwigsburg, about 65,000 people died in Stutthof concentration camp and its subcamps and during the death marches at the end of the war. Since she was only 18 to 19 years old at the time of the crime, the trial took place in front of a youth room. With the judgment, the court has complied with the demand of the public prosecutor. The defense had pleaded for an acquittal.
“Law has no expiration date and a long memory – if there are people who feel involved in this attitude. This is a signal that can be seen from afar, especially these days,” emphasizes Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee.
The suspect only appeared in court after an arrest warrant
At first, the defendant did not want to be involved. On the first day of the trial, she disappeared early in the morning from her retirement home in Quickborn (Pinneberg district). Hours later, the police picked her up on a street in Hamburg. The court issued an arrest warrant. The then 96-year-old was detained for five days.
F. only broke her silence at the end. “I’m sorry about everything that happened. I’m sorry I was in Stutthof then. I can’t say more,” the 97-year-old said at the end of the trial.
Source: Krone
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