A former secretary of a Nazi concentration camp has been accused of complicity in the killing of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said on Friday.
The unnamed woman, who was a minor when she was in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp between June 1943 and April 1945, was charged with “aiding and abetting murder in more than 10,000 cases” and complicity in attempted murder, according to CNN.
The woman “is accused of helping those in charge in the camp to systematically kill Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Soviet prisoners of war in her position as stenographer and secretary of the camp commander,” prosecutors said in a statement, CNN reported.
It seems that she will face a juvenile court because of her minor status at the time of the alleged crimes.
Thirteen other cases involving the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps are being investigated by German prosecutors.
A 93-year-old former Stutthof guard has been convicted in 2020 of thousands of charges of accessory to murder. He was tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 when the crimes were committed and received a two-year suspended prison sentence, according to CNN.
During the Holocaust, about 65,000 people were killed at the Stutthof concentration camp, located near the Polish city of Gdansk.