Gitta Sereny
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Gitta Sereny is a Hungarian-born British biographer, historian and journalist.
Born a Hungarian in Vienna, Austria in 1923, Sereny read Hitler's Mein Kampf at the age of 11 and heard him address a rally in Vienna four years later.
She was briefly an observer at the Nuremberg trials, which she attended for four days in 1945.
Educated in England and France in addition to her Austrian schooling, her writings include biographies of:
- Mary Bell (1972)
- the killers of Jamie Bulger
- Albert Speer
- Franz Stangl
External link
- BBC biography (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/86021.stm)