A former secretary of a Nazi concentration camp is charged with complicity in the killings of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.
The unnamed woman, who was a minor when she was in the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp between June 1943 and April 1945, is charged, according to CNN, with ‘murder assistance in more than 10,000 cases’ and complicity in attempted murder.
The woman ‘is accused of assisting those responsible in the camp with the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Russian Soviet prisoners of war in her capacity as stenographer and secretary of the camp commander’, prosecutors said in a statement. statement said reported.
She will reportedly face a juvenile court due to her minor status at the time of the alleged crimes.
Thirteen other cases related to concentration camps Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof are being investigated by German prosecutors.
A 93-year-old former guard at Stutthof was convicted in 2020 of thousands of murder charges. He was tried in a juvenile court since he was 17 when the crimes were committed, and according to CNN received a suspended prison sentence of two years.
During the Holocaust, an estimated 65,000 people were killed in the Stutthof concentration camp, near the Polish city of Gdansk.