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Nazi camp survivor: ‘The biggest fish were let go’

Irmgard F. was a secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp for two years. Now, at the age of 96, she is to stand trial on charges of more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder. The Holocaust survivor Abba Naor asks why the authorities waited so long to try her.

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