What a difference a Dey makes
Irmgard Furchner has been brought to justice and sentenced to a two-year suspended jail term, for complicity in war crimes during WWII. In her role as a typist at Stutthof concentration camp, she may have been aware of atrocities when she saw papers in the office, or looked out of the window. Yet, as a teenaged young woman, she didn't rise up against the might of the Nazi death machine.
What was she supposed to do? Write a letter of complaint to that nice Herr Hitler? FFS!
But at least the world can sleep peacefully at last, safe in the knowledge that she's finally been held to account. (rolleyes)
Reporting on this story of truth, justice, and the German way, Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall overview other recent trials of minor actors having been elevated to Nazi war criminal status. Rushing trivialities through the courts before a higher authority takes over.
In 2020, another SS camp guard, Bruno Dey, was given a two-year suspected jail term for complicity in the murder of more than prisoners.
Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall, BBC News
Our correspondents don't go so far as to explain who, or what, other than prisoners Dey was accused of murdering. Nor why, or of what, his jail term was suspected.
Herr Hitler was not nice.
The stealth update.
In 2020, another SS camp guard, Bruno Dey, was given a two-year suspected jail term for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.
Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall, BBC News
Dey's jail term is still only suspected though. (LOL)
And now Dey's suspected jail term is suspended. We got there in the end, and no one need be any the wiser.
In 2020, another SS camp guard, Bruno Dey, was given a two-year suspended jail term for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 prisoners.
Paul Kirby and Robert Greenall, BBC News
Of course, the Wayback Machine has all of these shenanigans, and my back, covered. Bless its little cotton socks.