German Court Rejects Appeal by 99-Year-Old Former Secretary to SS Camp Commandant

Irmgard Furchner was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders during her time at Stutthof in 2022.

Irmgard Furchner, accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp function, appears in court for the verdict in her trial in Itzehoe, Germany, on Dec. 20, 2022. Christian Charisius/via DPA

A German court rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old former secretary to an SS concentration camp commandant on Aug. 20 over her conviction of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders during World War II.

The Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence by a state court in Itzehoe, northern Germany, in December 2022.