The Guard and the Secretary

This chapter argues that the trial of Irmgard FurchnerFurchner, Irmgard, former secretary to the commandant of StutthofStutthof, as an accessoryaccessory to murder, represents a misapplication of the juridical breakthrough achieved in the DemjanjukDemjanjuk, John convictionConviction and enlarged in the subsequent judgment against GröningGröning, Oskar. This misapplication is the consequence of the fact that German prosecutors have had to pigeonhole Nazi mass atrocities into the category of simple statutory murder.