A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp in Germany was handed a two year suspended sentence today for her complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people. Host Marco Werman speaks with historian Thomas Weber of the University of Aberdeen about the case against 97-year-old Irmgard Furchner, who worked as a typist in the Stutthof concentration camp.
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