Hitler biographer Fest dies

German journalist and historian Joachim Fest, who worked closely with Hitler’s architect Albert Speer on his memoirs and penned one of the best-regarded biographies of the Nazi dictator, has died aged 79.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where Fest worked for two decades until 1993, said Fest died of unspecified causes yesterday evening at his home in Kronberg.