Involved In The Murder Of 10,500 Prisoners, Grandma Of The Former Secretary Of The Nazi Concentration Camp Was Sentenced

The situation at the Stutthof Concentration Camp in 1939. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - An elderly woman was convicted of guilt, helping with her role as secretary of the Nazi SS concentration camp commander during World War Two.

The woman identified as Irmgard Furchner (97) was declared part of the apparatus assisting the function of the camp.

He was convicted of assisting and conspiring in the killing of 10,500 people. However, the sentence imposed on him by the Itzehoe State Court in Germany was an probationary sentence of two years.

He "helped and conspired with those responsible for the camp in the systematic assassination of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945, in its function as stenographers and typosers at the camp commander's office," the indictment reads.

Furchner told the court he regretted what had happened and regretted being in Stutthof at the time.

Despite being old, he was tried in a juvenile court, as he was under 21 while working in the concentration camp.

Initially, the gathering place for non-Jahudi Jews and Polish people who were transferred from Danzig, now the city of Gdansk Poland, Stutthof is used as the so-called "work education camp" where forced workers, especially Polish citizens and the Soviet Union, were sent to serve their sentences and mostly to death.

Since mid- 1944, tens of thousands of Jews from lattice in Baltic and from Auschwitz, filled camps along with thousands of Polish civilians who were swept away in the brutal suppression of Nazi insurgencies of Warsaw.

Other people imprisoned in the camp include political prisoners to criminals and witnesses.

More than 60,000 people were killed there by injection of gasoline or phenol directly into the heart, shot or left starving.

Others were forced out in winter without clothes until they died due to exposure to the cold, or were killed in the gas room.