#stutthof

Irmgard Furchner is a former secretary who as a teenager worked in the concentration camp of Stutthof as a secretary. She was sentenced in 2021 by the municipality court of Itzehoe as an accessory to murder in over 10.000 cases for her involvement in the Holocaust.

Now, her case is under revision before the BGH, Germany's highest criminal court.

The german legal approach to our Nazi past, is complicated. Due to the statue of limitation running out on most sentences, it is necessary to tie Nazi crimes to murder as it is one of the few crimes without a statue of limitation. Naturally, murder has a high legal threshold to qualify a crime for. This is especially the case with murder as the german crime of murder requires not just the objective aspect of physically killing a person but also the subjective mental element in the killer to qualify for murder. Otherwise, the crime tends to pass as manslaughter which has an already passed statue of limitation. So if Furchner is not proven a murder, she walks free.

Irmgard Furchner's case is considered historically important and a last chance to legally acknowledge complex perpetration in the Nazi regime. Like the precedent of John Demjanjuk before her, the case against Furchner builds on her indirect involvement in the killings. By working in the concentration camp as a secretary she is part of the Holocaust machine without direct physical involvement in the killings. Furchner argues, she was just a secretary who did not hold intend for or knowledge of the killings in Stutthof.

94-latek zeznawał w procesie sekretarki z niemieckiego obozu koncentracyjnego w Stutthofie

Abraham Koryski, 94-latek ocalały z obozu koncentracyjnego w Stutthofie, zeznawał we wtorek na temat sadystycznych okrucieństw, jakich świadkiem był w obozie. W Itzehoe (Szlezwik-Holsztyn) toczy się proces przeciwko 96-letniej Irmgard Furchner, byłej sekretarce komendanta obozu – informuje we wtorek agencja dpa. 94-letni Koryski (94 l.) potwierdził, że jako młodzieniec był więziony w Stutthofie…

Stutthof trial: Witness hugs former concentration camp guard

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panorama Stutthof process "I'll forgive him" – concentration camp inmate embraces former SS guard

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Former SS guards and concentration camp survivors hug each other

As an infant, he survived the Stutthof concentration camp. At a ripe old age, Moshe Peter Loth, as a witness, faces an even older SS guard in the Hamburg…