The public prosecutor of Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein investigates a former transcriptionist of the concentration camp Stutthof near Gdansk on suspicion of aiding and abetting murder. Survivors of the camp were heard as witnesses in Israel and the US, said Attorney Peter Müller-Rakow.
The 94-year-old woman worked from 1943 to 1945 as a typist in the concentration camp. "The question is, what did she write there," he said. Should she be charged, she would have to answer before the youth chamber because of her age. Previously, the NDR and the "Flensburger Tageblatt" reported about it.
The prosecutor had been informed by the responsible for the investigation of Nazi crimes central office in Ludwigsburg on the case of living in the district court woman, said Müller-Rakow. He could not tell if the woman was already interviewed.
From October 17, a 92-year-old former SS guard must answer for suspected aiding and abetting the 5230-fold murder before the Hamburg district court. The defendant living in the Hanseatic city was according to prosecutors from August 1944 to April 1945 in the concentration camp Stutthof as a security guard in action.
In recent years, there have been several charges and lawsuits in Germany for Nazi crimes. In some cases, procedures were discontinued because the defendants were not able to negotiate because of their age. The district court of Münster, for example, closed the case against a former SS guard at the Stutthof concentration camp at the beginning of April.
In the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, the Nazis had, among other things, imprisoned, tortured and systematically killed Polish citizens, Soviet prisoners of war and Jews. According to the public prosecutor's office, inmates of the camp were systematically killed in a collar and gas chamber on the orders of the SS in Berlin since the summer of 1944. Of the more than one hundred thousand inmates brought to Stutthof, an estimated 65,000 died.