German court convicts 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary

Irmgard Furchner has been convicted (Christian Charisius/Pool/AP)

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder, for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during the Second World War.

Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function.