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Can a civilian typist in a Nazi concentration camp have aided and abetted mass murder of more than 10,000 people? An arm of Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (BGH) began taking on this question on Wednesday. Irmgard F, who is now 99 years old, was handed a two-year suspended jail term in December 2022. As she was a teenager at the time of murders, she was sentenced in special juvenile court. Two-and-a-half years later, the BGH’s 5th Criminal Senate in Leipzig will decide whether that sentence stands. The hearing had to be moved from a small building in the eastern city of Leipzig to a large c…

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