The old woman’s request against the arrest warrant was accepted by the judge. She is under investigation for “complicity” in the massacre of 11 thousand people
Irmgard Furchner won the first round of his battle against German justice. The 96-year-old former Nazi secretary who did not appear in the courtroom on 30 September last, where the trial against her for “complicity” in the massacre of over 11 thousand people should have been held, was in fact released from prison.
The woman’s escape in a taxi lasted a few hours, the German police had intercepted and arrested her on a mandate from the prosecutor’s office. Furchner appealed the precautionary measure, and today the Itzehoe court agreed with her, accepting the request for release. Since 30 September she was locked up in the Lübeck prison.
The old woman is on trial for being the secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945, when she was only 18 years old. The woman will now be able to return to the retirement home where she lived, in Itzehoe, not far from Hamburg in northern Germany, pending the next hearing scheduled for 19 October. Despite her advanced age, the woman was evaluated by some experts as capable of responding to the trial against her.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman in decades to be tried for crimes related to the Third Reich. The line of defense taken by her lawyers focuses on the fact that the old woman would never physically contribute to the massacre of any prisoner, but her duties were limited to writing telegrams and sending radio communications.
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The old woman’s request against the arrest warrant was accepted by the judge. She is under investigation for “complicity” in the massacre of 11 thousand people
Irmgard Furchner won the first round of his battle against German justice. The 96-year-old former Nazi secretary who did not appear in the courtroom on 30 September last, where the trial against her for “complicity” in the massacre of over 11 thousand people should have been held, was in fact released from prison.
The woman’s escape in a taxi lasted a few hours, the German police had intercepted and arrested her on a mandate from the prosecutor’s office. Furchner appealed the precautionary measure, and today the Itzehoe court agreed with her, accepting the request for release. Since 30 September she was locked up in the Lübeck prison.
The old woman is on trial for being the secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945, when she was only 18 years old. The woman will now be able to return to the retirement home where she lived, in Itzehoe, not far from Hamburg in northern Germany, pending the next hearing scheduled for 19 October. Despite her advanced age, the woman was evaluated by some experts as capable of responding to the trial against her.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman in decades to be tried for crimes related to the Third Reich. The line of defense taken by her lawyers focuses on the fact that the old woman would never physically contribute to the massacre of any prisoner, but her duties were limited to writing telegrams and sending radio communications.
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The old woman’s request against the arrest warrant was accepted by the judge. She is under investigation for “complicity” in the massacre of 11 thousand people
Irmgard Furchner won the first round of his battle against German justice. The 96-year-old former Nazi secretary who did not appear in the courtroom on 30 September last, where the trial against her for “complicity” in the massacre of over 11 thousand people should have been held, was in fact released from prison.
The woman’s escape in a taxi lasted a few hours, the German police had intercepted and arrested her on a mandate from the prosecutor’s office. Furchner appealed the precautionary measure, and today the Itzehoe court agreed with her, accepting the request for release. Since 30 September she was locked up in the Lübeck prison.
The old woman is on trial for being the secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945, when she was only 18 years old. The woman will now be able to return to the retirement home where she lived, in Itzehoe, not far from Hamburg in northern Germany, pending the next hearing scheduled for 19 October. Despite her advanced age, the woman was evaluated by some experts as capable of responding to the trial against her.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman in decades to be tried for crimes related to the Third Reich. The line of defense taken by her lawyers focuses on the fact that the old woman would never physically contribute to the massacre of any prisoner, but her duties were limited to writing telegrams and sending radio communications.
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The old woman’s request against the arrest warrant was accepted by the judge. She is under investigation for “complicity” in the massacre of 11 thousand people
Irmgard Furchner won the first round of his battle against German justice. The 96-year-old former Nazi secretary who did not appear in the courtroom on 30 September last, where the trial against her for “complicity” in the massacre of over 11 thousand people should have been held, was in fact released from prison.
The woman’s escape in a taxi lasted a few hours, the German police had intercepted and arrested her on a mandate from the prosecutor’s office. Furchner appealed the precautionary measure, and today the Itzehoe court agreed with her, accepting the request for release. Since 30 September she was locked up in the Lübeck prison.
The old woman is on trial for being the secretary of the Stutthof concentration camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945, when she was only 18 years old. The woman will now be able to return to the retirement home where she lived, in Itzehoe, not far from Hamburg in northern Germany, pending the next hearing scheduled for 19 October. Despite her advanced age, the woman was evaluated by some experts as capable of responding to the trial against her.
Irmgard Furchner is the first woman in decades to be tried for crimes related to the Third Reich. The line of defense taken by her lawyers focuses on the fact that the old woman would never physically contribute to the massacre of any prisoner, but her duties were limited to writing telegrams and sending radio communications.
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