12 minutes ago95-year-old accused of nearly 10,000 murders
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(5 years ago)A 95-year-old woman who has worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been charged in northern Germany for assistance in mass murder. The woman, identified in the media as Irmgard F and living in a home in Pinneberg near Hamburg, is charged with more than 10,000 murders. It has [...]
The woman, identified in the media as Irmgard F and living in a home in Pinneberg near Hamburg, is charged with more than 10,000 murders.
She served as secretary to the SS Commander of Stutthof, a brutal Nazi camp, near modern-day Gdansk, where about 65,000 prisoners died during World War II.
It is unclear whether she will face trial while her role is still being investigated.
Stutthof was established in 1939, in what was then the Nazi-intruded Poland and the guards began using gas rooms there in June 1944. Soviet troops freed him in May 1945 as the war ended.
About 100,000 prisoners were held in Stutthof under cruel conditions. Many died of disease and hunger, some were eliminated with poisonous gas, and death injections were administered to others.
Many of the victims were Jewish, but there were also non - Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers. /A2 CNN
