Former Nazi camp secretary, 96, caught after skipping trial

Former Nazi camp secretary, 96, caught after skipping trial
The empty seat where the defendant was due to sit at the court in Itzehoe (Markus Schreiber, Pool/AP)

A former secretary of an SS commander in charge of a concentration camp who skipped the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder has been found after the court issued a warrant for her arrest.

The 96-year-old woman had left her home near Hamburg in a taxi on Thursday morning, a few hours before proceedings were due to start at the state court in Itzehoe, court spokesperson Frederike Milhoffer said.

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