In Germany, 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner was sentenced to 2 years probation on charges of complicity in the Holocaust. For two years (between 1943 and 1945) a woman worked as a secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp.
As the court found, Fürchner worked with letters and documents from the camp commandant and performed other administrative duties, contributing to the work of the concentration camp, in which 65,000 people were killed.
The defense argued that the defendant did not know about the killings taking place in the camp. At the end of the court session, the woman said, "I'm sorry about everything that happened."
According to the BBC, the trial of Fürchner is considered unprecedented, since she was not a member of the military rank, but was listed as a hired civilian.
A year earlier, Fürchner tried to escape from a nursing home to hide from the court, but she was detained a few hours after the escape.
