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Global News Podcast

Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The 97-year-old German worked for a concentration camp commandant as a teenager. Also: Rescuers continue searching for two dozen sailors from a Thai warship that sank on Sunday, and Argentina’s football team comes home to a hero's welcome following their World Cup win.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global Newspot from the BBC World Service.

0:04.3

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday 20 December, these are our main stories.

0:09.4

A 97-year-old German woman has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for her role

0:15.2

in the murder of thousands of people during the Holocaust.

0:18.2

Relative speak-out as rescuers in Thailand continue to search for two dozen sailors still

0:23.7

missing after a warship sank on Sunday.

0:26.8

And we'll head to Argentina where the football world cup winners have returned to a hero's welcome.

0:33.8

Also in this podcast, we get reaction from an African environment minister to an agreement

0:38.6

to protect biodiversity around the world.

0:41.2

North Korea has described Japan's planned military build-up as a new aggression policy

0:46.8

and says it'll respond with what it called practical actions.

0:50.8

And...

0:51.4

Esnifa dogs, they detect hippoteat, hippotasks and several airports now, the result of tightened

0:58.0

restrictions on elephant ivory.

1:00.1

We head to Africa to look at the cynical adaptability of poaches.

1:07.5

In what will surely be one of the last Nazi era trials, a court in Germany has sentenced a 97-year-old

1:14.8

woman to a two-year prison sentence for complicity in the Holocaust.

1:19.0

In Gart Forkna, worked as a secretary at the Stutthalf concentration camp in what is now Poland,

1:26.6

prosecutors argue that by handling the camp commandants, correspondents and performing other administrative duties,

1:33.1

Forkna facilitated an operation that killed 65,000 people.

1:38.4

Our Europe Regional Editor, Paul Moss, has been following the story.

1:42.1

Well, this was a relatively small camp in what is now Poland.

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