Furchner, Former Secretary of a Nazi Concentration Camp, Freed Pending Trial | The 96-year-old ran away last week

Irmgard Furchner, the former secretary of a Nazi concentration camp detained since Thursday after escaping before the trial where her complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people will be analyzed, was released on Tuesday pending a new hearing, set for October 19.

Furchner, from 96 years old, is accused of typing execution and deportation orders in a camp in Poland when she was between 18 and 19 years old and will be the first woman involved in Nazism for decades to be tried in the country.

This Thursday, 20 minutes after the scheduled time for her trial in northern Germany, the president of the court announced that the accused had fled and that an arrest warrant had been issued. The same day, she was found by the police and was arrested.

This Tuesday, however, “the court suspended the arrest warrant and released the accused subject to precautionary measures”declared the spokesperson Frederike Milhoffer of the court of Itzehoe (north), without specifying the nature of these measures.

What Irmgard Furchner did

Furchner’s face was relatively known to be one of the oldest people on trial for crimes against humanity of Nazism, now he is on international headlines for circumvention of justice.

Fuechner worked at Stutthof between June 1943 and April 1945 as a typist and secretary to the camp commander, Paul Werner Hoppe, the Nazi criminal responsible for the murder of “Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Russian Soviet prisoners of war,” according to the charge. .

The accused had already testified twice, in 1954 and 1962, about her role in this killing center. The first time around, he said that all correspondence with SS headquarters went through his hands and that Werner Hoppe dictated daily writings and radio messages to him. However, he vowed that he had never been aware of the murderous machinery of which tens of thousands of people were victims.

Lawyer Christoph Rückel, who has represented Holocaust survivors for years, says “she handled all of the camp commander’s correspondence.” “He also typed the execution and expulsion orders and affixed his initials,” he told local press.