‘I remember the sound of their boots marching past’
Now 103, the last survivor of the German army’s most notorious WWI war crime remembers her father’s words: “If you don’t obey, the Germans will kill you.”
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“The difference would be American air power,” says James Jeffrey, a former US ambassador to Iraq, on the question of how to deal with the Islamic State.
Now 103, the last survivor of the German army’s most notorious WWI war crime remembers her father’s words: “If you don’t obey, the Germans will kill you.”
The Foreign Office tweets extracts from diplomatic telegrams, dispatches and letters in real time to mark the start of world war one, 100 years on. Here are just some of the key moments.
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Ukraine and the US say pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine are responsible for downing the Malaysian Airlines jet. But how strong is the evidence?
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