Veteran writer and journalist Gitta Sereny has died at the age of 91.
The author passed away earlier this month (Jun12) at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England after a long illness, but further details of her death were unknown as WENN went to press.
The Austrian-born wordsmith, daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat and German actress, moved to London in the 1950s with her husband and two children and wrote about the Holocaust and some of history's most hated figures in a bid to make sense of their crimes.
Among others, she penned books on Nazi architect and armaments minister Albert Speer and British child killer Mary Bell, to whom she controversially gave half her fee for the tome.
Sereny was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Cbe) in 2004 for her services to journalism.