96-Year-Old Ex-Nazi Death Camp Secretary Who Fled Trial To Face Court
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The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades, Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in occupied Poland.
A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear in court in Germany on Tuesday.
The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in decades, Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in occupied Poland.
However an arrest warrant was issued by the court on September 30, in the northern town of Itzehoe after Furchner left the retirement home where she lives as her trial was set to begin, and headed to a metro station.
The pensioner managed to evade police for several hours before being apprehended in the nearby city of Hamburg and temporarily held in custody by authorities.
