Status: October 19, 2021 3:44 p.m.
The indictment against a former concentration camp secretary was read out before the regional court in Itzehoe. The now 96-year-old has to answer for aiding and abetting murder in the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig in more than 11,000 cases.
In one of the presumably last Nazi trials in Germany, the indictment against a former concentration camp secretary was read out in front of the Itzehoe regional court today. The now 96-year-old has to answer for aiding and abetting murder in the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig in more than 11,000 cases. The accused is charged with helping those responsible at the camp with the systematic killing of those imprisoned there in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp headquarters of the former Stutthof concentration camp between June 1943 and April 1945.
Indictment describes conditions in Stutthof
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The indictment described the conditions in the Stutthof camp between June 1943 and April 1945: there was talk of shots in the neck, gassings and death marches of the prisoners. In addition, the prisoners were left to their fate shortly before the collapse of the Reich. According to the prosecution, they were no longer given any food, died of exhaustion or illness.
Defendant did not testify
The 96-year-old did not testify in the process today. However, in a statement, her lawyers doubted the accused was an accessory to the murder of the accused. The secretary at the time should have known a lot more and had been more actively involved in the murders. The day of the trial ended after two hours today. The interrogation of a historian should continue in a week.
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