Nazi secretary

German prosecutors yesterday called for a 97-year-old woman who was the secretary to the SS commander of the

Stutthof concentration camp to be convicted as an accessory to murder and given a two-year suspended sentence. Prosecutors accuse Irmgard Furchner of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof camp function during World

War II. She is alleged to have “aided and abetted those in charge of the camp in the systematic killing of those imprisoned there between June 1943 and April 1945 in her function as a stenographer and typist in the camp commandant’s office”.