Nazi Camp : A former secretary of the Nazi concentration camp. Has been arrested after because he tried to flee.
Irmgard Furchner, 96, was to be found guilty of killing 11,000 people. but he failed to appear and the judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
From a nursing home in the town of Quickborn.
fled to Hamburg.
He had fled to Hamburg.
Irmgard Furchner was due to appear in a special children’s court in Itzehoe, an hour’s drive north of Hamburg.
Instead he left the retirement home between 06:00 and 07:20 local time (05:00 and 06:20 BST), apparently heading for the underground station. “He took a taxi,” said court spokesman Frederike Milhoffer.
Because the city court was not large enough to capture the interest of the media.
Judge Dominik Gross had earlier adjourned the case until October 19.
representing Nazi survivors
A group representing Nazi survivors and relatives of the dead have expressed outrage that he had managed to escape. “This shows contempt for the law and for survivors,” said the International Auschwitz Committee.
The case appears to have been unprecedented as Irmgard Furchner was a public servant in Stutthof.
worked as a typewriter
He worked as a typewriter for the office of Stutthof camp commander Paul-Werner Hoppe, near the present-day Polish city of Gdansk, then part of Nazi Germany, then known as Danzig.
For two years before the war ended in 1945. He was said to have learned the most important details of what had happened in the concentration camp.
During Hoppe’s trial in 1954 he revealed how he had been texting him but said he knew nothing about the Nazi genocide in Stutthof.
An estimated 100,000 people were detained in Stutthof. Which was notorious for its horrific conditions and 65,000 were estimated to have died.
Stutthof had gas chambers. And people were being killed in the camp by bombings. Shootings and deadly injections and starvation. Many lost their lives as a result of marching to death from the camp as World War II drew to a close.
Those killed in Stutthof included many Jews and non-Jewish Poles and kidnapped Soviet troops.
Thursday’s case marks one of the last cases against the Nazis, mainly because few defendants are still alive. As the defendant was still in his early teens. And last year another camp guard.
