Irmgard Furchner was found guilty on Tuesday of complicity in the deaths of 10,505 people at the Stutthof concentration camp.
A former Nazi concentration camp typist known as the “Secretary of Evil” has been convicted by a German court for her role in more than 10,000 murders during the Holocaust.
After several months of judicial proceedings that were initially delayed by her attempt to escape in Sept. 2021, FurchnerFurchner was a teenager when she worked as a secretary at Stutthof.“I’m sorry for everything that happened,” she told the court, her face largely obscured by a mask and sunglasses. “I regret that I was at Stutthof at that time.”United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The official findings were bolstered by testimonies from Stutthof survivors, now also in their 80s and 90s.“If she worked as the commander’s secretary, then she knew exactly what happened,” Risa Silbert, 93,Josef Salmonovic, 84, whose father was killed at Stutthof, also traveled from Vienna to testify. Last December, he told reporters that Furchner was “indirectly guilty.”
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