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German Court Upholds Conviction of 99-Year-Old Former Nazi Concentration Camp Secretary
Breitbart ^ | 08/20/2024 | Breitbart London

Posted on 08/20/2024 6:14:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

BERLIN (AP) – A German court on Tuesday 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 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: conviction; german; nazi; secretary
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Thoughts? Concerns? Was she really an accessory? If she spoke up she would be send to a camp herself
1 posted on 08/20/2024 6:14:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wish they would go after the Muslim criminals with the same persistence.


2 posted on 08/20/2024 6:17:24 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nah, she’d have just been fired and had to take up some other job somewhere else.

She had to have known what was going on, that is not deniable. Others did things to resist or actively fight against the evil things that were happening - even camp slave laborers committed occasional sabotage.

To passively exist is not a defense.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 6:21:36 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: larrytown

Good point


4 posted on 08/20/2024 6:22:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Soon they will be jailing the 100 year old sisters of gas station attendants who filled delivery trucks that drove to concentration camps.

IMO you see it’s now a tool of the progressive left to show the moral need of their existence…sort of an official state virtue signal.

Meanwhile the 3rd world invasion continues, but yes look here..over here!!! At the Nazi’s in nursing homes THATS the danger (they are saying in so many other words).


5 posted on 08/20/2024 6:39:26 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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Better late than never.


6 posted on 08/20/2024 6:51:37 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And yet Germany is supporting a country that regards Nazi collaberator/murderer Stepan Bandera as a hero.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 6:52:23 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get back to us when Putin starts prosecuting former Gulag administrators.

Oh wait...that’s his support base

NM


8 posted on 08/20/2024 6:52:55 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Freeleesy

Maybe we can finally indict and convict some of our Deep State criminals...when they are ninety nine years old...

Lol.


9 posted on 08/20/2024 6:54:37 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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If she spoke up she would be send to a camp herself

"Spoke up" or just "quit and walked away"? Germans who just refused to participate in the Holocaust weren't generally punished according to most accounts. Able-bodied males might end up in a combat unit, but so did a lot of other able-bodied males.

"Speaking up" on any topic critical of the regime, on the other hand, would land a person in considerable trouble.

Not a big fan of prosecuting 99yo secretaries, though. They let a lot of the big fish go in the 1950's and 1960's, and are now trying to virtue-signal by prosecuting the nearly-dead junior underlings.

10 posted on 08/20/2024 7:01:11 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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I would say this has importance when they start jailing all the NGO workers and politicians for aiding and abetting all the drug and human traffickers across the southern border.


11 posted on 08/20/2024 7:06:03 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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Good points


12 posted on 08/20/2024 7:06:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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I would say this has importance when they start jailing all the NGO workers and politicians for aiding and abetting all the drug and human traffickers across the southern border.


13 posted on 08/20/2024 7:06:48 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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“Concerns?”

Yes. I do not think she’s guilty of being an accessory to murder. She was a secretary doing secretarial work such as typing, filing, taking notes, answering phones, etc.

Now did she have anything at all to do with the murder victims such as herding them around, tattooing them, collecting their clothes, actual murder, guarding their barracks, etc? If yes, then she’s an accessory.

We do not have access to the facts the court considered, but based on this story, she’s innocent.

A related concern is going after the innocent here once the commies take full control. Many a Korean and Vietnam war vets killed commies. I can see them rounded up and put in gulags. This may seem silly, but 40 years ago if someone mentioned we’d have trannies in high government places and children sexually mutilated they would have been laughed at.


14 posted on 08/20/2024 7:10:32 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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I wonder to what extent she had much of a choice. I don’t know the answer.


15 posted on 08/20/2024 7:11:32 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a small step from here to “Smith and Wesson are a liable accessory for the crime of murder”.


16 posted on 08/20/2024 7:12:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now do George Soros.


17 posted on 08/20/2024 7:22:13 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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Wernher von Braun knowingly used slave labor to build his rockets, but he was useful to us. Instead of jail, he became the Marshall Space Flight Center's first director and later, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning.

Justice is variable.
18 posted on 08/20/2024 7:26:58 AM PDT by 109ACS (Wanted Dead or Alive: Schrödinger's Cat)
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Yet for violent, vicious Muslim criminals:

62-D69-D0-E-D943-41-EB-A63-E-705-AED1-DE5-A7

A20-EEAA0-C103-4344-906-C-27-EEF0093853-4-5005-c

19 posted on 08/20/2024 7:32:11 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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As if she never spoke to another Nazi, didn’t wonder what her own files were about. Lived in a bubble? People all over Germany ratting out Jews and she just didn’t know. Give me a break.


20 posted on 08/20/2024 7:50:30 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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