LEIPZIG (Germany), Aug 20 (Bernama-dpa) -- Germany's Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a 99-year-old former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp for aiding and abetting the mass murder of more than 10,000 people between June 1943 and April 1945, reported German news agency (dpa).
The court sitting in the eastern city of Leipzig dismissed the appeal against a verdict handed down by the Itzehoe Regional Court, to the north of Hamburg, in December 2022.
The regional court had sentenced the woman to a two-year suspended juvenile sentence for aiding and abetting murder in 10,505 cases and attempted murder in five cases.
The woman, identified under German privacy laws as Irmgard F, received a youth sentence as she was under 21 years old at the times the crimes were committed. Tuesday's decision is now final.
The case is considered possibly the last criminal trial for addressing the Nazi mass murders.
Irmgard F was employed as a typist in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp near what was then the Free City of Danzig – now Gdańsk in Poland – when she was 18 to 19 years old.
The regional court had judged that through her work, the young woman had assisted the camp’s officials in the systematic killing of inmates. Also, supporting activities could legally be seen as aiding and abetting murder.
-- BERNAMA-dpa
