‘The sense of urgency is palpable. The old Nazis are dying’: How a British film-maker launched a decade-long project to interview the last Nazi eyewitnesses to the Holocaust, and why Germany refused to fund him
When Irmgard Furchner escaped from her nursing home in September 2021, she was not propelled by dementia or confusion. The 96-year-old was deliberately running away from a long-delayed war crimes trial, accused of more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder.
As a typist and stenographer at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp, Furchner had compiled the deportation lists to Auschwitz and “contributed to the smooth functioning of the camp,” according to the prosecution.
