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Irmgard Furchner, 97, was sentenced to 10,000 murders at the Nazi death camp Stutthof during the Second World War yesterday. Her conviction follows a string of other similar cases. In July 2015, Oskar Groening (left) was sentenced to four years in jail for his contribution as an accomplice to the assassination of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Because of his role in tracking the money taken from Jewish refugees after they were admitted to the camp, he was nicknamed the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz.' Bruno Dey (inset top), 93, was found guilty in July 2020 of being an accomplice to 5,230 murders at the Stutthoff concentration camp in Danzig, Poland's Gdansk. Josef Schuetz (top right), 101, received a five-year prison term for being an accomplice to the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, in June this year. Schuetz aided and abetted the execution of the war in 1942, as well as the murder of prisoners "using the poisonous gas Zyklon B." Reinhold Hanning (bottom right), the former Nazi guard of Auschwitz's murder of more than 170,000 people, was found guilty in June 2016.

Irmgard Furchner (pictured left in court on Tuesday and right as a young woman) is the first woman to be charged in Germany for Nazi-era crimes in decades, according to prosecutors, this could be one of the country's last trials into crimes committed during the Holocaust. Prosecutors suspect Furchner of complicity in the 'cruel and malicious murder' of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof death camp, and have asked the judges to fork down a two-year suspended sentence. According to a court statement, Furchner's lawyers called for her acquittal last week, saying the evidence presented in the trial 'had not shown beyond doubt' that she was aware of the killings.

Irmgard Furchner was found guilty of complicity in the 'cruel and homicide' of over 10,000 people at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland, according to public prosecutor Maxi Wantzen. Furchner was the first woman to be charged in Germany in decades for Nazi-era crimes. The defendant was a youth when the suspected offences were committed and is being tried in juvenile court.