The trial of an elderly German woman .. “helped to kill more than 11,000 people”

Reuters

The trial of a 96-year-old woman accused of helping to kill prisoners during the Nazi era has begun in Germany.

According to CNN, the woman, dubbed "Irmgard Forchner" by German media, is accused of being involved in the murder of more than 11,000 people, when she was working as a secretary in the office of the head of the special security forces at Stutthof camp in Poland, which was Under the control of the Nazis at the time.

According to Russia Today, the charges allege that the accused aided Nazi concentration camp officials in the systematic killing of prisoners, between June 1943 and April 1945, according to the indictment issued by the court.

Elder Forchner is being tried by a juvenile court circuit because she committed the alleged crimes as a teenager, and is one of the first women to be tried in decades for crimes during the Nazi era.

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