Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, was found guilty of participating in the murder of more than 10,500 people and was given a two-year suspended sentence.
The Holocaust wasn’t simply carried out by Nazi soldiers on their own. there were many other people who played critical and supporting roles to enable the horrific mass murder of millions of Jews.
Irmgard Furchner, a 97-year-old former Nazi secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, was found guilty of participating in the murder of more than 10,500 people and was given a two-year suspended sentence.
Dr. Robert Rozett, a senior historian at Yad Vashem, discusses the case of what message the trial sends to the world.