Justice: 96-year-old defendant in Nazi trial taken to prison

Justice: 96-year-old defendant in Nazi trial taken to prison

The escape of a 96-year-old woman from justice had made headlines across Germany. The woman, who is accused of aiding and abetting Nazi crimes, is now in custody.

The 96-year-old defendant in what was possibly the last Nazi trial in Germany before the Itzehoe district court is now in custody.

According to information from the German Press Agency, she was taken to the Lübeck correctional facility. Female prisoners are held there.

On Thursday evening, the district court ordered the defendant to be arrested. The criminal chamber reacted to the attempt of the former secretary in the Stutthof concentration camp to evade the trial. According to a spokeswoman, the detention was ordered until further notice. Due to the absence of the defendants, the criminal chamber suspended the trial until October 19.

The woman is charged with complicity in murder in more than 11,000 cases. As a typist and typist in the headquarters of Stutthof near Danzig, she is said to have helped those responsible at the camp with the systematic killing of prisoners between June 1943 and April 1945. According to the central office in Ludwigsburg responsible for investigating Nazi crimes, around 65,000 people died in the German concentration camp and its sub-camps as well as on the so-called death marches at the end of the war.

According to the court spokeswoman, the 96-year-old left her place of residence on Thursday between 6 a.m. and 7:20 a.m. and took a taxi to Norderstedt / Hamburg-Ochsenzoll. According to “Bild” information, she was walking on Langenhorner Chaussee in Hamburg at noon when police officers noticed her. According to a court spokeswoman, she wrote a letter to the court a few days before the start of the trial that she did not want to come.

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