The first woman in more than a decade has been convicted of Nazi World War II crimes in Germany.
The 97-year-old learned her fate Tuesday after more than a year at trial, which she at one point tried to evade.
The state court in Itzehoe, in northern Germany, handed Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence – in line with prosecutors’ demands.
She was sentenced under juvenile law, owing to the fact that she was only 18-years-old at the time of the crimes.
