Irmgard F. suspected of aiding and abetting in the murder of over eleven thousand people in the Stutthof concentration camp
Irmgard F. is 96 years old, we can imagine the good-natured face of an old German woman and yet she tried to escape from a process that has been waiting for her for some time. The woman was the secretary of a Nazi concentration camp and suspected of aiding and abetting in the murder of over eleven thousand people in the Stutthof concentration camp, Poland, near Gdansk.
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Escape at 96
On September 30, the woman was supposed to appear at a hearing at the juvenile court in Itzehoe, Germany – she was 18 at the time – for not showing up. Resolute, despite her age, she had escaped from the nursing home where she resided, had taken a taxi and had been dropped off at a metro stop on the outskirts of Hamburg. For hours the authorities searched for her in vain until they found her and the hearing was then postponed to October 19.
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The defense of the former Nazi secretary
Between June 1943 and April 1945, while she was stenographer and typist in the office of the director of the Stutthof concentration camp, she assisted the leaders of the camp in the systematic murder of prisoners, the prosecution said of her, citing those eleven thousand people killed. Instead, her defense has always been one: the camp commander, Paul Werner Hoppe, dictated letters and radio messages to her and she he knew nothing of the killing machine Nazi even though it was near his place of work.
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An iconic case
The Irmgard case is iconic not only for the age of the woman but also for what it represents. It should be the last trial of the Nazis in Germany and maximum attention in the country. The International Auschwitz Committee, the body founded by the concentration camp survivors, said it was outraged by the woman’s flight. He shows an incredible disregard for the rule of law and also for the survivors, said executive president Christoph Heubner, later criticizing the fact that the woman had managed to escape. It aims to make fun of our justice system and does not feel bound by the law here in Germany, adds the plaintiffs’ attorney, Onur Ozata.
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September 30, 2021 (change September 30, 2021 | 18:06)
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