Prosecutors in Itzehoe did not reveal the woman’s name, but said in a statement that they accused her of “assisting and complicity in murder in more than 10,000 cases” as well as complicity in attempting murder.
The woman, who was a minor at the time of the alleged crimes, “is accused of having assisted camp officials in the systematic murder of Russian Jewish prisoners, Polish guerrillas and Soviet prisoners of war in their role as stenographer and secretary to the camp commander. “between June 1943 and April 1945, prosecutors said in a statement.
She will face a juvenile court because she was under 18 when she served at Stutthof.
It is estimated that around 65,000 people were murdered during the Holocaust in the concentration camp at Stutthof, near the Polish city today called Gdansk.
German prosecutors are investigating 13 other cases linked to the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof concentration camps, according to the Central Office for the Nazi Crime Investigation.
He was also tried in a juvenile court because he was 17 at the time he was serving at Stutthof.
First established by the Nazis in 1939, Stutthof now houses a total of 115,000 prisoners, more than half of whom died there. About 22,000 were transferred from Stutthof to other Nazi camps.