irmgard furchner left a care home near hamburg in a taxi hours before she was due to be taken to courtning the elderly woman accused of complicity in mass murder didn't turn up for her trial. irmgard furchner, shown here as a young woman, had called a cab from her care home and disappeared before she was later arrested. it's a lifetime since she worked as a secretary at stutthof concentration camp. her lawyers argue she didn't know what really happened there. today, visitors are left to imagine the cruelty, the inhumanity, of the place. 65,000 people were murdered here — hanged, gassed, shot or simply left to succumb to the brutal conditions. i am convinced that she knew everything. every order of the chief commander of the camp went over her desk or she wrote it. justice has caught up with a number of low—ranking nazis in recent years. oscar groening, a guard at auschwitz, was convicted six years ago after a previous court allowed prosecutors to charge people like him and like former guard, reinhold hanning. neither man ordered or committed mass murder, but by simply being part of the

irmgard furchner was just a teenager when she worked for the commandant of a camp in occupied poland. this morning the elderly woman accused of complicity in mass murder did not turn up for her trial. irmgard furchner, shown here as a young woman, had called a cab from her care home and disappeared before she was later arrested. it is a lifetime since she worked as a secretary at stutthof concentration camp. her lawyers argue she did not know what really happened there. today, visitors are left to imagine the cruelty, the inhumanity, of the place. 65,000 people were murdered here, hanged, gassed, shot or simply left to succumb to the brutal conditions. every order of the chief command went over her desk and she wrote it. justice has caught up with a number of low—ranking nazis in recent years. oscar groening, a guard at auschwitz, was convicted six years ago, after a previous court allowed prosecutors to charge people like him and like former guard, reinhold hanning. neither man ordered or committed mass murder, but by simply being part of the nazi machine, they were judged complicit.

at the age of 18, irmgard furchner worked as a typist in the office of the stutthof camp commander in as danzig, in today's poland. 65,000 prisoners were killed in the camp, which now stands as a memorial to them. the prosecution says for two years, furchner helped camp leaders in over 11,000 murders. she denies that. the case is seen as unprecedented, as furchner was a civilian worker. here's the prosecution. translation: the aim of the investigations _ translation: the aim of the investigations until _ translation: the aim of the investigations until now- translation: the aim of the investigations until now was i translation: the aim of the | investigations until now was to clarify the question of how far the defendant contributed to the running of the camp and to what degree this can be penalised under criminal law. we needed to clarify to what degree she was vital in keeping the camp running and supporting the daily business there. groups representing nazi survivors and relatives of victims have expressed outrage she'd been able to escape. here's a lawyer representing holocaust vi

as an 18 year old, irmgard furchner was secretary to the commander of stutthof concentration camp, wherewere all set out ready. and then came the flood. and climate change means a rising risk of such floods. and the trauma they bring. we don't sleep in this night. we always heard cries and my husband heard a man in the water and saved him. linda survived, but her restaurant was ruined. and as high as there? this was the highest place. and it's so sad. my heart is broken. everything is ending here with the flood. for the winemakers, too, with their ruined crop, this is a bleak autumn, with a long and bitter aftertaste. on the night of the floods, the water came halfway up these vines, and this crop is no good for this year. but further on, it's even worse. closer to the river, the vines have been completely destroyed. they'll have to replant them, and that means it will be four or even five years before this area bears fruit again. when we look at what happened in this event, we ask yourself how we can better prepare for the future and we need to improve our systems, make more accurate fo