Former concentration camp secretary Irmgard F. is dead
The former concentration camp secretary Irmgard F., condemned for aid to mass murder, is dead. She died on January 14th at the age of 99, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office Itzehoe in northern Germany. Several media had previously reported on their death.
On December 20, 2022, the district court Itzehoe sentenced to a juvenile sentence of two years for a help to the murder in 10,505 cases and attempted murder in five cases. The Federal Court of Justice, Germany’s top civil and criminal court, confirmed the judgment on August 20 of last year.
In autumn 2021, the trial started against F. had fled from her retirement home to Hamburg. The court had the then 96-year-old in custody for five days.
Like a concentration camp secretary at the Stutthof, helped with the murder
Desk work as aid
Irmgard F. was employed as an 18 to 19-year-old woman between June 1943 and April 1945 as a stenotypist in the command of the concentration camp near Gdansk. Almost the entire correspondence of the warehouse was convinced of the dishes over her desk. She was a close confidante by the camp commander Paul Werner Hoppe.
The secretary was charged with the killing of prisoners by the hostile conditions in the camp, in the event of death transports and in a gas chamber. According to the Documentation Center in Arolsen Archives, around 110,000 people from 28 countries were imprisoned in the Stutthof concentration camp and its 39 external camps. Almost 65,000 did not survive.
The 101-year-old who was sitting and was silent in court
F. knew about what was happening in the camp
Through her work, she provided those responsible for the concentration camp in the systematic killing of imprisoned help. Supporting activities could also be legally regarded as aid to murder. The Federal Court of Justice explained that Irmgard F. led both physical and mental aid through their willingness to serve.
Due to the findings of the Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein) regional court, the federal judges assumed that Irmgard F. The events in the warehouse I knew. So she looked over part of the site from her work, saw the chimney of the crematorium, knew about the miserable state of the prisoners.
No neutral work as a secretary
From the beginning of her activity, the secretary also recognized that the main perpetrators around camp commander Hoppe acted criminically. Due to her loyal services, she had solidarity with them, so that her actions were no longer neutral.
