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97-year-old ex-concentration camp secretary convicted of war crimes • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE24, 20 Dec 2022
A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary has been convicted for her role in the murder of thousands of people. The district court in the northern town of Itzehoe handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of more than 10,500 people, according to German media reports Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945; near Gdansk, in today's Poland. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Berlin Nick Spicer tells us more.
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