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.

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.

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 ...

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.