Irmgard Furchner, a former extermination camp secretary, now 97, was given a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting the murder of over ten thousand people at the Polish-occupied Stutthof camp near modern-day Gdansk by the Nazis during World War II.
The woman played a role in the “cruel and malicious” murder of inmates at Stutthof, as Itzehoe District Court President Dominik Groß described it. Furchner, then 18 or 19 years old, was a typist at the camp headquarters, where about 65,000 people died.
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The allegation was to have been part of the apparatus that supported the functioning of the camp, namely “to have helped the camp management in the systematic killing of those imprisoned between June 1943 and April 1945 in their role as stenographer and to have favored them as typists in the camp command. “
In 2021, the woman living in a nursing home also attempted to escape in order to avoid one of the last trials against National Socialism.
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Initially a collection point for Jewish and non-Jewish Poles expelled from Gdańsk, Stutthof was used from 1940 as a “labor education camp” where citizens – mainly Poles and Soviets – were used for forced labor, which by 1944 often resulted in the death of thousands of Jews from the Baltic ghettos and Auschwitz filled the camp, along with thousands of Polish civilians involved in the Nazis’ brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising.