This is the 96-year-old death camp secretary who was caught after going on the run in Germany ahead of her trial for aiding and abetting in mass murder for the Nazis.
Irmgard Furchner, who has been dubbed the 'secretary of evil', had been due to stand trial in Itzehoe Regional Court yesterday on charges of assisting in the deaths of 11,412 prisoners at the Stutthof death camp between 1943 and 1945.
She was just 18 when she started work at Stutthof camp on the Baltic coast in Nazi-occupied Poland, and is the first woman to stand trial in decades over crimes connected to the Third Reich.
But Judge Dominik Gross was forced to suspend the case at 10.10am and launch a manhunt for the nonagenarian after she failed to appear.
The court heard that she was last seen leaving her nursing home in a taxi before 7.30am and heading towards a local train station.
At 1.50pm, police tracked Furchner to a street in northern Hamburg, roughly five miles from where she was last seen. It is thought that she caught a train into the city, before setting out on foot.
She is now being held at a police station close to where she was found and is being questioned by officers, Bild reported. (more...)
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