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German historian and publisher Joachim Fest, author of a landmark biography of Adolf Hitler, has died aged 79, German media reported on Tuesday.

Fest, who was seen as one of Germany’s leading authorities on National Socialism (Nazism), died at his home in Kronberg near Frankfurt on Monday, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the paper he co-published between 1973 and 1993.  The FAZ did not give the cause of his death.

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