The German Irmgard Furchner, one of the probable last convicted, dies at 99 years – Liberation
Aged from 18 to 19 years old at the time of the events, between 1943 and 1945, Irmgard Farchner was dactylographer and secretary of Paul Werner Hoppe, commander of the Stutthof camp where around 65,000 people died, mostly Jews, Polish supporters and Soviet war prisoners. She had been tried before a special courtyard for young people because of her age at the time of the facts. The sentence of two years in prison suspended had taken into account « Hierarchically subordinate function and the ability to resist the accused’s possibly reduced due to indoctrination » of the time.
Several trials of former Nazi camp employees have taken place in recent years in Germany, Since the conviction in 2011 of The former goalkeeper of the Sobibor extermination camp, John Demjanjuk, who had made a case law. Given the great age of the accused, the trials could not always be held for health reasons, or the convicts died before being imprisoned, as Demjanjuk. In June 2024, the Hanau court, near Frankfurt, refused the appearance of a former Garden in the 99-year-old Sachsenhausen camp, deemed unable to attend his trial for health reasons.
