The process should have started on Thursday, but before that, the former concentration camp secretary had been picked up by taxi from an old people’s home. Now an arrest warrant is being sought for her.
Itzehoe – She is accused of complicity in murder in over 11,000 cases, but the defendant Irmgard F. refused to attend the trial. Before the process could even start, the 96-year-old got into a taxi, now she is on the run. She is being searched for with an arrest warrant.
Shortly before the start of the process: Former concentration camp secretary (96) escapes from old people’s home – arrest warrant!
As the dpa reports, citing the presiding judge at the regional court, Dominik Groß, the defendant is currently fleeting. That was explained right at the start of the negotiation after about 15 minutes. As Bild reported, the 96-year-old, who actually lives in a nursing home in Quickborn in Schleswig Holstein, is said to have got into a taxi early in the morning before the start of the process. From there, the 96-year-old is said to have been brought to the Norderstedt subway station north of Hamburg, since then there has been no trace of her.
Former concentration camp secretary on the run: She is said to have assisted murder in over 11,000 cases
Irmgard F. is accused as a secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp to have assisted the murder in over 11,000 cases. As a stenographer and typist in the camp headquarters of the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig, between June 1943 and April 1945 she is said to have helped those responsible at the camp with the systematic killing of prisoners.
The International Auschwitz Committee has expressed outrage about the escape of the defendants in the Nazi trial from Itzehoe near Hamburg. “This shows an incredible contempt for the rule of law and also for the survivors,” said Vice-Executive President Christoph Heubner on Thursday. The committee represents concentration camp survivors and their relatives.
76 years after the end of the Second World War, the investigative authorities in Germany continue to work to solve Nazi crimes. They don’t have much time left.
