Former Nazi camp secretary, 97, appeals against conviction

Irmgard Furchner was convicted of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp function (Christian Charisius/Pool Photo via DPA/AP)

A 97-year-old woman is appealing against her conviction in Germany of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders when she was a secretary to the commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during the Second World War.

On December 20 the Itzehoe state court gave Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five cases.