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    Ex-Nazi concentration camp secretary, 96, caught after fleeing before trial

    Sep 30, 2021 4 minutes

    A 96-year-old woman who worked as a secretary for a Nazi concentration camp commandant has been caught several hours after she absconded from her care home and missed the start of her trial in northern Germany.

    Irmgard Furchnerwas 18 when she started work at Stutthof camp on the Baltic coast in the Nazi-occupied area of the Free City of Danzig. She was due to stand trial on Thursday on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of prisoners.

    After she failed to appear, the court spokesperson Frederike Milhoffer said an arrest warrant had been issued. “She left her home early in the morning in a taxi in the direction of a metro station,” Milhoffer said.

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