A 97-year-old woman has appealed her case after she was found to have been an accessory in the murder of 10,500 prisoners at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
A 97-year-old woman convicted this month as anat the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II appealed her case Wednesday.
in the system that led to the death of 10,505 people in the camp near Danzig, now known as the Polish city of Gdańsk.Irmgard Furchner, accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function, appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germay, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.
"The promotion of these acts by the accused took place through the completion of paperwork" a court statement said."This activity was necessary for the organization of the camp and the execution of the cruel, systematic acts of killing." Gas chamber of the former Nazi German concentration camp KL Stutthof is seen in Sztutowo, Poland on Sept. 10, 2022. Stutthof was the first Nazi concentration camp built outside of Germany. Completed in September 1939, it was located in a secluded, wet, and wooded area, west of the small town of Sztutowo, Freie Stadt Danzig area.Some 65,000 Jews, Poles and political prisoners were killed in the camp that stood from 1939 until it was liberated in 1945.
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