A 97-year-old woman is appealing 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 WWII.
a two-year suspended sentence for being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five cases.
The case relied on a German legal precedent established over the last decade that allows anyone who helpedand concentration camps function to be prosecuted as an accessory to the murders committed there, even without evidence of participation in a specific killing.
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