CNN reported that a former “printer” in a Nazi concentration camp had been convicted of her role in killing 10,505 people during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Irmgard Forschner worked in the Stutthof camp near Gdańsk in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1943 until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945.
An Army “typist” supervises or performs administrative, clerical, and typing duties. He may also be responsible for scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements, and organizing any other work-related events.
The source said that Forchner’s trial took place in a court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, where she was sentenced to a suspended two-year prison sentence on Tuesday.
Although she is 97 years old today, Forschner was prosecuted in juvenile court because she was under 21 at the time of the crime. Her sentence would also see her placed on probation.
According to the indictment issued by the court, she was an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 cases. She was found guilty of aiding camp officials in the systematic killing of prisoners between June 1943 and April 1945, according to the court’s indictment.
Television footage showed her being taken to court in a wheelchair, her face barely visible behind a white mask and a scarf lowered over her eyes.
Although her lawyers argued that their client was acquitted because “the evidence did not show beyond reasonable doubt that Forschner knew about the systematic killings in the camp,” the court found her guilty.
In her closing statement, Forschner said she regretted what had happened and regretted being in Stutthof at the time.
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