Irmgard Furchner has been dubbed the ‘secretary of evil’ for death camp work. She is on trial in Germany accused of murder of over 11,000 people during WWII. On Tuesday, Holocaust survivor Asia Shindelman gave harrowing testimony. The 93-year-old spoke in detail of the treatment of Jews and other prisoners at the Stutthof camp in Nazi-occupied Danzig, now in Poland. (…) Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old typist who has been dubbed the ‘Secretary of Evil’, is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 11,412 at the camp through her work as the secretary to the SS commander at Stutthof. Furchner denies the charges. 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 worked in an office outside the main Stutthof camp, and claims she had no knowledge of the mass-murder being carried out inside (…) Mr Salomonovic dismissed the possibility that Furchner had no knowledge of the killings, telling reporters after the December 7 hearing that even if she was not directly responsible, she was still indirectly guilty – even if all she did was stamp his father’s death certificate.
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