German prosecutors seek suspended sentence for ex-Nazi camp secretary, 97, at trial – Prosecutor calls for Irmgard Furchner to get 2-year suspended term as accessory to murder, arguing she must have been aware of mass killings at Stutthof concentration camp | Timesofisrael

BERLIN, Germany — German prosecutors called Tuesday for a 97-year-old woman who was the secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp to be convicted as an accessory to murder and to be given a two-year suspended sentence.
Irmgard Furchner has been on trial for over a year at the Itzehoe state court in northern Germany. Prosecutor Maxi Wantzen said in closing arguments that “these proceedings are of outstanding historical significance,” the German news agency dpa reported.