Irmgard Furchner - nicknamed the 'secretary of evil' - was only 18 when she went to work for the Stutthof camp's commander

A German court on Tuesday handed a two-year suspended sentence to a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary over complicity in the murder of some 10,505 people.

Presiding judge Dominik Gross read out the verdict for defendant Irmgard Furchner for her role in what prosecutors called the "cruel and malicious murder" of prisoners at the Stutthof camp in occupied Poland, where over 60,000 people died. This is the conclusion to what may be one of the country's last Holocaust trials.

The defendant sat in a wheelchair in the courtroom, wearing a white cap and a medical mask as the verdict was read out - finding her guilty of thousands of counts of accessory to murder. She was the first woman in decades to be tried in Germany for Nazi-era crimes. 
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