Germany has charged a former Auschwitz radio-woman with 260,000 murders.
The 91-year-old former Nazi SS member has not yet been identified, but she reportedly worked at the death camp directly under its commandant from April 1944 to July 1944.
German prosecutors say that, during her brief employment there, many thousands of Hungarian Jews were gassed to death, and are therefore holding the unnamed senior citizen personally accountable as an accessory to their murders.
A spokesman for the prosecution contends that, despite the former radio operator’s advanced years, “she is fit to stand trial” for war crimes, noting that it may take an additional year to launch criminal proceedings against her.
Roughly 6500 Nazis were assigned to oversee various operations at the notorious extermination facility; from 1940 to 1945 killing over a million noncombatants, including women, children, and the elderly.
To date, however, only 50 of them have been prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity -- most recently the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” Oskar Groenig who was sentenced to a mere 4-years in prison this year for his role in robbing doomed inmates of their valuables.
