Irmgard Furchner had knowledge of all of the horrific events at the Stutthof Nazi camp, prosecutor told court. Furchner was a secretary at camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945. A teenager at the time, she was secretary for SS commander Paul Werner Hoppe. via dailymail: azi ‘secretary of evil’, 96, was informed ‘down to the last detail’ of every murder method used at Stutthof concentration camp, trial hears as she denies complicity in more than 10,000 deaths. A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary was allegedly informed ‘down to the last detail’ of every murder method used at the Stutthof camp, a court has heard. Irmgard Furchner, who has been dubbed the ‘secretary of evil’, was wheeled into the courtroom by guards with a facemask and large sunglasses covering her face and a pink beret over her white hair on Tuesday. She is standing trial for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Poland between 1943 and 1945, a charge which she denies. Furchner was just 18 when she started work at the camp on the Baltic coast, and is the first woman to stand trial in decades over crimes connected to the Third Reich. She had knowledge of all of the horrific events at the camp due to her work for the commandment of the camp and was informed ‘down to the last detail’ about the murder methods practised there, prosecutor Maxi Wantzen told the court in the northern town of Itzehoe. He added that through her work as the camp secretary, she ensured ‘the smooth functioning of the camp’, reports the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.
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