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German court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Euronews ^ | 20/08/2024

Posted on 08/20/2024 3:36:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Furchern was convicted after judges said they were convinced she knew and "deliberately supported" the fact that 10,505 prisoners were killed in gassings at the concentration camp near Danzig.

A German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.

The Federal Court of Justice on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in Itzehoe in northern Germany.

She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. She was convicted of being an accessory to murder in 10,505 cases and an accessory to attempted murder in five cases.

At a federal court hearing in Leipzig last month, Furchner's lawyers cast doubt on whether she really was an accessory to crimes committed by the commander and other senior camp officials, and on whether she had truly been aware of what was going on at Stutthof.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: concentrationcamp; holocaust; irmgardfurchner; nazi; stutthof; wwii

1 posted on 08/20/2024 3:36:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

She could lose her 401K over this


2 posted on 08/20/2024 3:39:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Now it’s time to extradite an actual nazi collaborator, Schwartz Gyorgy back to Europe to face the music 🎵.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 3:41:53 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Larry Lucido

Oh, well.


4 posted on 08/20/2024 3:42:19 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

A two-year suspended sentence. Whatever will she do?


5 posted on 08/20/2024 3:43:02 PM PDT by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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To: Larry Lucido

This would be a good time for her to decide she is a non-binary trans-man.


6 posted on 08/20/2024 3:43:38 PM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: nickcarraway

She had to know, but the militaries that captured her camp thought she was too insignificant to worry about.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 3:47:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Larry Lucido

She’ll probably get life.


8 posted on 08/20/2024 3:51:41 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: nickcarraway; FRiends

If anyone needs to read something relatively ‘uplifting’ after this, please read ‘In My Hands’ by Irene Gut Opdyke.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/494320.In_My_Hands

There is now a movie and it’s gotten rave reviews.

So, yeah - not everyone trapped in Germany at the time was hell-bent on killing Jews. ;)

This lady will have fun talking over her complicity with Saint Peter, I’m sure. She’s not too far out! ;)


9 posted on 08/20/2024 3:56:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: nickcarraway

Meanwhile communism is responsible for 100 million deaths and counting, 4 times the amount of people the Nazis killed and we have people who think it’s cute to elect communists into congress and now the Presidency. Hey, why not, let’s try for 200 million.


10 posted on 08/20/2024 3:57:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: nickcarraway
That will not look good on her job résumé.
11 posted on 08/20/2024 4:20:18 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: nickcarraway

In 1945 she would have been 20 years old. During the war an Austrian was executed for refusing to join the German army. I don’t feel good about her secretarial job, but I don’t know the alternatives she had available once she figured out what was going on. Regardless, I am not going to feel good about this justice either.


12 posted on 08/20/2024 4:21:35 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: nickcarraway
..... truly been aware of what was going on at Stutthof.

There is no validity to this kind of question. Anyone working in any of those death camps was aware of what was happening.

13 posted on 08/20/2024 4:25:42 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
#10: "Meanwhile communism is responsible for 100 million deaths and counting, 4 times the amount of people the Nazis killed and we have people who think it's cute to elect communists into congress and now the Presidency."

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!

Going after this insignificant peon in the cog of Nazism is nothing more than virtue signaling. It means nothing. It's leftists throwing bouquets at themselves. This woman, who is now very, very old, once typed letters which others wrote. She didn't kill anyone.

On the other hand, Xi Jinping, the darling of the Deep State, kills hundreds each and every day, thousands per year. He persecutes minorities. He kills his political enemies. He enriches himself from the state treasury. He has global ambitions which would make Hitler blush.

14 posted on 08/20/2024 4:27:06 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: nickcarraway

Conviction as an accessory makes sense. The killing of 6,000,000 Jews out of a population of just over 9,000,000 in all of Europe required the complicity of so many not actually dropping poison into the chambers.


15 posted on 08/20/2024 4:53:56 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I had a college prof who related she always packed a full lunch sack, set next to a Jew, and left the sack. One day a guard on the bus saw it, and made it clear he didn’t believe it was an accident.


16 posted on 08/20/2024 5:56:56 PM PDT by healy61 (.)
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To: healy61

Doing the right thing in this world has always come with risks. Evil is everywhere.

God Bless Her - and I’m sure he has. *HEART*


17 posted on 08/20/2024 7:24:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: nickcarraway

Why haven’t they gone after George Soros?


18 posted on 08/20/2024 7:41:33 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: nickcarraway

Now do Soros!


19 posted on 08/20/2024 8:08:19 PM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And that’s just one communist country. We also got North Korea which is the definition of hell on earth. It is communism brought to its ultimate nightmare where the individual is reduced to mere fodder for the dictator who demands absolute and complete submission to him under penalty of death. Every time I debate commies on social media, I tell them they know nothing of communism until they live in North Korea for even a month


20 posted on 08/20/2024 8:56:08 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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