Trial against concentration camp secretary
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The bureaucrat of terror
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She wrote for people who ruled death. So is she just another cog that kept the Nazi killing machine turning? The public prosecutor accuses Irmgard F. of being an accessory to murder in more than 11,000 cases.
(Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa)
Irmgard F. was 18 when she started at the Stutthof concentration camp in the camp commandant’s office. Now she’s 96 and has to stand trial for aiding and abetting 11,000 counts of murder. About the question of how much complicity a typist has in the Holocaust.
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Peter Burghardt, Hamburg
First it jerks a bit, then you can hear and see it very clearly. USA’s Asia Shindelman, born 93 years ago in Lithuania, leans over a notebook at home in Wayne, New Jersey. Pink suit, hair teased, nails painted, lips drawn, voice warm and clear. She can now be seen on flat screens in this north German courtroom.
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