German court to try 96-year-old over time at Nazi concentration camp
By DW
19 July 2021 |
8:43 am
The elderly woman, once a secretary at Hitlerꞌs Stutthof camp, is accused of being an accessory to the murder of over 11,000 people. She will be tried in a juvenile court as she was 18 at the time.
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