Germany starts final Nazi trials

TWO FORMER Nazis living in Germany have been charged over their role in the Holocaust.

On February 5, state prosecutors in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, charged a 95-year-old woman with more than 10,000 counts of accessory to murder.

‘Irmgard F’ worked as a stenographer and secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp between June 1943 and January 1945.

She became a typist after the war and today lives in a care home in the district of Pinneberg near Hamburg.

Meanwhile, prosecutors in Neuruppin, in the state of Brandenburg, charged a 100-year-old ex-concentration camp guard on February 9 with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder.

The former guard worked at Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin between 1942 and 1945. Both he and Irmgard F. have been judged fit to stand trial.

Because she was aged between 18 and 20 when engaged at Stutthof, Irmgard F. will be prosecuted as an adolescent and tried in juvenile court.

Their arrests are part of a last dash by German prosecutors to charge and convict the country’s final surviving Nazis before it is too late.