A former secretary of a Nazi concentration camp has been charged with complicity in the killing of 10,000 people, German prosecutors said Friday.
The unnamed woman, who was a minor when she was in the Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof between June 1943 and April 1945, was accused of attending and inciting the murder in more than 10,000 cases and of complicity. in an assassination attempt, according to CNN.
The woman “is accused of aiding camp officials in the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners, Polish partisans and Russian Soviet prisoners of war in their role as stenographer and secretary of the camp commander,” prosecutors said in a statement, CNN reported.
He is reportedly facing juvenile court because of his minor status at the time of the alleged crimes.
Thirteen more cases related to the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps are being investigated by German prosecutors.
A 93-year-old former Stutthof guard was convicted in 2020 of thousands of accessory offenses 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, an estimated 65,000 people were killed in the Stutthof concentration camp, located near the Polish city of Gdansk.