The 100-Year Life Health Education and Government
This week Irmgard Furchner, aged 99, lost her appeal against a two-year suspended prison sentence handed down by a German court for complicity in more than 10,000 murders while working in a concentration camp during the Second World War. She was 18 at the time of the offences so was tried by a juvenile court that established she had worked as a stenographer in the camp commandant’s office. This is the latest of several cases since 2011 built on the idea that simply having helped a concentration camp to function was sufficient for a conviction as an accessory to murder – but it might be the last. There are three more cases pending, according to a special federal prosecutor in Ludwigsburg, but the accused may not stand trial due to their old age.
