2 h. ago Nazi 'secretary of evil' dies aged 99 after being convicted for murder of 10,500 people

Irmgard Furchner, who was convicted of aiding 10,505 murders at the Stutthof concentration camp, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', has died in Germany

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3 h. ago Nazi 'secretary of evil' convicted of aiding 10,500 murders dies at 99

Irmgard Furchner, who worked at a Polish concentration camp, died last month at the age of 99 after being convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of 10,500 prisoners

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7 h. ago Female CEO makes shock claim about boy, 17, stabbed at Texas track meet as donations to 'killer' hit $170k

Stephanie Crutchfield made the shock claim after donating $1,000 to alleged murderer Karmello Anthony (left).

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7 h. ago Nazi death camp 'secretary of evil' dies just 2 years after facing justice for 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', joined Stutthof concentration camp as a teenage shorthand typist and worked there from 1943 to 1945 as secretary to the SS commander Paul Werner Hoppe

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7 h. ago Nazi death camp 'secretary of evil' dies after conviction over role in 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', joined Stutthof concentration camp as a teenage shorthand typist and worked there from 1943 to 1945 as secretary to the SS commander Paul Werner Hoppe

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11 h. ago Nazi death camp's 'secretary of evil' dies aged 99: Woman fled nursing home and went on the run before finally facing justice for aiding more than 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, who was a secretary to the SS commander of the infamous concentration camp Stutthof, died aged 99, German outlet Bild reports.

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6 d. ago The Most Precious of Cargoes review – postmodern Holocaust fairytale is dreamy curiosity

Michel Hazanavicius’s sentimental tale about a baby found in the woods features sweet little cartoon birds and rabbits as well as the real horror of Nazi death campsDirected by Michel Hazanavicius, this postmodern Holocaust fairytale premiered at Cannes last year, and turns out to be a dreamy animated curiosity which is certainly different to the icy realist rigour of other films which have appeared there on the same theme, such as Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest or László Nemes’s Son of Saul. It is adapted from a novella by author and screenwriter Jean-Claude Grumberg (who collaborated with Truffaut on The Last Metro), whose own father was murdered in the Nazi death camps.The late Jean-Louis Trintignant has his final credit as the narrator, introducing us to scenes that could, at first glance, be from the Brothers Grimm. We see a dense central European forest through which a second world war Nazi train is seen speeding through, carrying terrified Jews to Auschwitz. One man, ...

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8 d. ago I didn't speak to my mom for 12 years and was so happy when she died. She was evil and I have no regrets

After decades of 'trying in vain' to heal his fractured relationship with his mother, a fed-up New Yorker finally decided to put himself first - and his mother last.

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9 d. ago Kenyan man who spent decade on death row sues London police for role in wrongful conviction

New emails reveal ‘panic’ inside the Home Office at the case of Ali Kololo, who was wrongly imprisoned for the 2011 murder of British tourist David TebbuttA Kenyan man who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death over an attack on British tourists is suing the Metropolitan police over its role in the case.Ali Kololo was imprisoned for more than a decade in what his lawyers called “appalling conditions” before being released when his conviction was quashed in 2023. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prosecutor says at trial that Iran put $500,000 bounty on head of Iranian

A prosecutor has told a jury at a murder-for-hire trial that the Iranian government put a $500,000 bounty on the head of an outspoken Iranian-American journalist

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3 w. ago Murder investigation launched into Cardiff missing woman case and £20,000 reward offered

Charlene Hobbs has not been seen since July last night in the Adamsdown area of the city

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3 w. ago Victoria Cross awarded to 'Pirate of Basra' WWI secret agent who was 'murdered' by Turkish troops in Iraq sells for £200,000

Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Cowley took part in a suicidal mission to reinforce the besieged Kut garrison in Mesopotamia, now Iraq , in the First Word War.

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4 w. ago Trump’s January 6 pardon doesn’t cover FBI murder plot conviction, judge rules

Judge denies Edward Kelley’s motion to dismiss separate charges of plotting to kill federal agents investigating himA man pardoned by Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection who also was convicted of plotting to kill federal agents investigating him is still legally liable for the plot, a judge ruled on Monday.Edward Kelley was pardoned by Trump for his role in the US Capitol riot, but he remained in prison on separate charges. The Tennessee man had developed a “kill list” of FBI agents who had investigated him for the Capitol attack. Continue reading...

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