Prosecutors in Itzehoe did not name the woman, but said in a statement that they charged her with “murder assistance in more than 10,000 cases”, as well as complicity in attempted murder.
The woman, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, is accused of assisting those responsible in the camp with the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet-Russian prisoners of war in her function as stenographer and secretary. to the camp commander, ‘the prosecutors said in a statement between June 1943 and April 1945.
She will stand before the juvenile court because she was under 18 when she served in Stutthof.
An estimated 65,000 people were killed during the massacre in the Stutthof concentration camp, near the Polish city now called Gdansk.
German prosecutors are investigating 13 other cases related to the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps, according to the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes.
He was also tried in the juvenile court because he was 17 years old when he served in Stutthof.
Stutthof, first founded by the Nazis in 1939, housed a total of 115,000 prisoners, more than half of whom died there. About 22,000 were transferred from Stutthof to other Nazi camps.