A 96-year-old German woman was caught on Thursday, hours after failing to turn up for her trial on charges of aiding and abetting mass murder in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two, a court spokesperson said, according to Reuters.
Irmgard Furchner is accused of having contributed as an 18-year-old to the murder of 11,412 people when she was a typist at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, but her trial in the far northern town of Itzehoe could not begin in her absence.
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