Germany’s likely last Holocaust convict dies at 99

A 99-year-old former Nazi camp secretary, who may be the last ever person to be convicted in Germany for crimes committed during the Holocaust, has died.

Between June 1943 and April 1945, Irmgard Furchner took the dictation and handled the correspondence of camp commander Paul Werner Hoppe.

An estimated 65,000 people died at the camp near today’s Gdansk, including Jewish prisoners.

Delivering the verdict in 2022, presiding judge Dominik Gross said that “nothing that happened at Stutthof was kept from her [Furchner]” and that the defendant was aware of the “extremely bad conditions for the prisoners”.