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   German prosecutors have filed charges against a 95-year-old   
   woman who they say helped carry out “the systematic killing of   
   Jewish prisoners,” along with Polish partisans and Russian   
   prisoners of war.   
      
   The woman, who testified against the Nazi camp’s commandant in   
   the 1950s and was the subject of an investigation since at least   
   2016, was charged with 10,000 counts of accessory to murder and   
   an unspecified number of counts of accessory to attempted murder.   
      
   In a twist, the case is being handled by a juvenile court   
   because the woman was under 21 when she worked as a secretary at   
   the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk on Poland’s Baltic   
   coast, NPR reported.   
      
   The woman was not named, but Senior Public Prosecutor Peter   
   Müller-Rakow used the term “Heranwachsenden” to refer to her.   
   German law uses the term to refer to someone between 18 and 21   
   years old.   
      
   She would have been 18 or 19 when she started working at the   
   Nazi camp in June 1943. She was a close aide to the SS   
   commandant there until April 1945. The camp was one that used   
   Zyklon B gas chambers to exterminate prisoners. More than 60,000   
   people were killed there.   
      
   In an interview with a German public broadcaster in late 2019,   
   the woman, who was identified as “Irmgard F.,” said she has   
   repeatedly given witness accounts to authorities about what she   
   saw and did at the Stutthof camp. She claimed that she wasn’t   
   aware of mass poisonings or other acts of genocide — in part   
   because her office window faced outward from the camp, NPR   
   reported. She said she never set foot in the camp itself,   
   according to The Associated Press.   
      
   In 1957, Stutthof’s commandant Paul-Werner Hoppe was sentenced   
   to nine years in prison. He died in 1974. In the interview,   
   Irmgard F said she testified at his trial that all Hoppe’s   
   correspondence with higher SS administration had gone past her   
   desk and that the commandant had dictated her letters daily, the   
   AP reported. She said she did not know of prisoners being   
   gassed, but told authorities at the time she was aware Hoppe had   
   ordered executions, which she presumed were as punishment for   
   infractions.   
      
   Last year, Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former guard at the Stutthof   
   camp, was convicted of being an accessory in the murder of more   
   than 5,200 prisoners — but got off with a two-year suspended   
   prison sentence. Among the witnesses at his trial was then 91-   
   year-old Asia Shindelman, who survived the camp and eventually   
   settled in Wayne, NJ.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/02/06/nazi-death-camp-secretary-charged-   
   with-accessory-to-murder/   
         
      
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