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97-year-old German woman convicted of complicity in 10,500 Nazi death camp murders

Irmgard Furchner had absconded on the first day of her trial. On the last, she said, “I am sorry for everything that happened.”

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A judicial officer looks at his watch prior to a trial against 96-year-old alleged war criminal Irmgard Furchner in Itzehoe, Germany, on Sept. 30, 2021. (Markus Schreiber/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Alleged Nazi-era war criminal, 96, caught in Germany after skipping trial

A former secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, Irmgard Furchner left her nursing home in a taxi and failed to appear on time in court.

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)

Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old former concentration camp guard deported from US

Friedrich Karl Berger did not serve at a death camp, so the evidence against him “is not sufficient as such to prove the crime,” prosecutors said.

Franz Josef Huber. (National Archives of Slovenia)

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Rainer Hoess poses at a school after speaking to students about his grandfather's legacy in Toronto, Canada on Nov. 19, 2019. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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