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district court in the northern town of Itzehoe handed Irmgard
Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for aiding and abetting
the murder of 10,505 people and the attempted murder of five
people, a court spokesperson said.
The indictment had originally charged Furchner with aiding and
abetting the murders of 11,412 people.
Furchner was wheeled into court wearing a cream-coloured winter
coat and beret, and with a blanket over her lap.
In a closing statement at the trial earlier this month, Furchner
said she was sorry for what had happened and regretted that she
had been in Stutthof at the time.
Furchner worked at the Stutthof concentration camp, near Gdansk
in today's Poland, between 1943 and 1945.
The start of Furchner's trial was delayed in September 2021 when
she briefly went on the run. She was caught hours after failing
to turn up in court.
Some 65,000 people died of starvation and disease or in the gas
chamber at Stutthof. They included prisoners of war and Jews
caught up in the Nazis' extermination campaign.
She was sentenced under juvenile law, owing to the fact that she
was aged between 18 and 19 at the time of the crimes.
(Writing by Rachel MoreEditing by Madeline Chambers and Nick
Macfie)
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