![]() ![]() Many prisoners were left to starve and freeze in the open air. It also heard from historical experts who gave details of the daily life at Stutthof and the role Furchner played in assisting the bureaucratic processing of prisoners, as well as information about the treatment of prisoners, including torture methods and the procedures involved in the systematic murder of thousands of them, to which they said she had been privy. The trial, which took place over 40 days of sessions of about two hours’ duration due to the accused’s advanced age, heard from 30 survivors and relatives of prisoners of Stutthof from the US, France, Austria and the Baltic states. The judge, Dominik Gross, said the trial would be “one of the worldwide last criminal trials related to crimes of the Nazi era” and took the unusual step of allowing the proceedings to be recorded for “historical purposes”. She is the first civilian woman in Germany to have been held responsible for crimes committed in a Nazi concentration camp. She was tried in a juvenile court owing to her age at the time the crimes were committed. Having failed to turn up at court, she was found by police hours later on the outskirts of Hamburg, after which she was held in custody for five days and fitted with an electronic wrist tag.įurchner had worked at the Stutthof camp between 19 as a secretary to the camp commandant, Paul-Werner Hoppe, when she was 18 and 19. ![]() The start of her trial was delayed in September 2021 when she briefly went on the run. ![]()
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