Hunt as Nazi camp official flees her trial
A FORMER concentration camp secretary fled before the start of her Nazi war crimes trial yesterday.
Irmgard Furchner, 96, is accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 11,430 prisoners.
She took up her role aged 18 and remained at the Stutthof camp in Poland from 1943 to 1945.
A judge issued an arrest warrant after the accused left her nursing home in a taxi and failed to turn up at a court in Itzehoe.
She fled Quickborn in northern Germany and was later seen in Hamburg.
The International Auschwitz Committee claimed the fugitive had shown “incredible contempt for the rule of law and survivors”.