Rommel was visited by two senior generals at his home in October 1944. They handed him a cyanide capsule and told him that suicide would ensure a generous pension for his family and a state funeral.

The funeral of a decorated former soldier spared from the firing squad by a Nazi field marshal in World War Two takes place in Cardiff.

A seven-page report by Dr Frierich Breiderhoff has emerged about how SS soldiers threatened to harm his family if he didn't falsify Erwin Rommel's death certificate.

Manfred Rommel, who has died aged 84, was the only son of the "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel and a witness to the German commander's last moments; after the war he forged a remarkable friendship with ...

The funeral of a decorated former soldier spared from the firing squad by a Nazi field marshal in World War Two takes place in Cardiff.