Fifty years ago this month, in a prison cell in Nuremberg, a British officer handed Albert Speer a copy of his indictment for crimes against humanity. Forty-nine years ago this month he might have ...

The exact moment when the youthful Albert Speer entered into the Realm of the Demon, as a German Protestant pastor termed it, was afterwards precisely pinpointed by Speer himself. One day in the ...

Gitta Sereny chose for her subjects the sort of perpetrators of “evil” that other writers feared to touch — the child murderers Mary Bell and the killers of James Bulger, the Nazi architect Albert ...

Sereny was a veteran reporter who investigated some of the most appalling crimes and events of her time, including studies on the killers of James Bulger, the murderer Mary Bell and the Nazi ...

I couldn’t let this occasion pass without celebrating the life and work of author and journalist Gitta Sereny, who died earlier this month aged 91. In an era distinguished by the ersatz she was that ...

Journalist and author Gitta Sereny has died at the age of 91. Born in Vienna, she saw first-hand the rise of Nazism and spent her life exploring the nature of evil. Ms Sereny, who moved to the UK in ...

Gitta Sereny, who has died aged 91, was a controversial historian, biographer and journalist, who probably did as much as anyone in the 20th century to investigate and try to understand the nature of ...