The so-called 'secretary of evil' was just 18 when she went to work for the commander of the Stutthof camp, where more than 60,000 people died
Defence lawyers had asked for her to be acquitted, saying the evidence had not shown beyond doubt that Furchner knew about the systematic killings at the camp, meaning there was no proof of intent as required for criminal liability."It was impossible not to know what happened," Stutthof survivor Manfred Goldberg told Sky News, disputing Furchner's claim that she was not aware of the atrocities taking place there.
"Historians told us sick, starving, and terrified prisoners would have walked past the building every day. Some may have been stripped naked, yet she claimed she hadn't seen them, wasn't awareShe also hadn't heard the screams from the gas chambers or been aware of the bodies hanging outside. "And then there were the fires - first from the crematorium, which burned 24 hours a day, and then, when that couldn't keep up with the demand, the Nazis stacked and burned bodies in piles outside. The stench would have been ghastly, impossible to miss.
"Almost 80 years on, the lie failed and the guilty verdict was handed down - proving justice has no time limit and age is no defence."Perhaps as many as 100,000 people were deported to the Stutthof camp during the war.Many prisoners died in typhus epidemics that swept through the population, while those deemed too weak or sick to work by the guards were killed.
Stutthof is also remembered for its final days as the Soviet Red Army closed in, and the harrowing events that took place as thousands of prisoners were moved by camp guards under the pretence of an"evacuation".
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