65,000 people were gassed, shot and torn by dogs in the Stutthof concentration camp. The secretary Irmgard F. accepted it, says the judge. The verdict is two years probation. The question remains: why so late?
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Renate Meinhof, Itzehoe
For the last time she is pushed into the hall in a wheelchair. A slender woman in beige, her beret in her curls, her jacket not removed, as if she must be ready to leave at any time. And yet Irmgard F. seems calm and collected in her glass case when the presiding judge Dominik Groß announces the verdict. Two years in prison, suspended on probation, as requested by the public prosecutor. She is guilty of being an accessory to 10,505 cruel and insidious murders and five attempted murders at the Stutthof concentration camp.