In December 2022, Irmgard Furchner received a two-year suspended sentence for her part in the “cruel and malicious murder” of detainees at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland, according to the prosecution.
The Federal Court of Justice heard an appeal from her defense, but it upheld the decision.
Presiding Judge Gabriele Cirener declared, “The conviction of the defendant… to a two-year suspended sentence is final.”
Prosecutors estimate that 65,000 individuals perished at the camp close to present-day Gdansk, among them “Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans, and Soviet Russian prisoners of war.”
Furchner’s husband was an SS officer at the camp, and she took care of her husband’s mail and dictation between June 1943 and April 1945.
