The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
December 21, 2022

Germany Convicts 97-Year-Old Woman for Complicity with Nazi Murder of 10,000 People
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In Germany, a court convicted a 97-year-old woman who worked as a typist
at a Nazi concentration camp of aiding and abetting the murder of over
10,000 people. Irmgard Furchner was given a suspended two-year sentence.
This is state prosecutor Maxi Wantzen.

Maxi Wantzen: "'Only a secretary' is easily said, but the role of a
secretary at the time in the bureaucracy of a concentration camp was
significant."



.