05 February 2021
A woman who worked as a secretary in a Nazi death camp has been charged with being complicit in the deaths of 10,000 inmates.
German prosecutors said in a statement she is accused of “having assisted… in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet Russian prisoners of war in her function as a stenographer and secretary to the camp commander” between June 1943 and April 1945.
The woman, who has not been named, is charged with “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases”, as well as complicity in attempted murder, prosecutors from the northern city of Itzehoe said.
She worked at the Stutthof camp near what was Danzig, now Gdansk, in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where some 65,000 inmates died.
It is the first such case in recent years against a female staff member, who, because of her age at the time of the alleged offences, will face a juvenile court.
Set up by the Nazis in 1939, the camp was initially used to detain Polish political prisoners, but it ended up holding 110,000 detainees, including many Jews.
The Duchess of Cambridge spoke to two survivors from Stutthof last month to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Around 65,000 people perished there, part of more than six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
Adapted from original source: trtworld
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