Many a German diplomat looked astonished at the British when they flown around 15,000 people from Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul - three times more than Berlin.

But now a British diplomat, who had helped in the crisis team of the British Foreign Office, raised serious allegations against the action and the then Foreign Minister and now Justice Minister Dominic Raab.

According to the “whistleblower” - said the Foreign Affairs Committee about its witness - the action was “chaotic” and “dysfunctional”.

The report raised "questions for the leadership of the Foreign Office," said Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat.

Jochen Buchsteiner

Political correspondent in London.

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In his testimony, the 25-year-old Raphael Marshall, who has since left the office, states that none of his colleagues had any knowledge of the country or the language. Decisions were made "arbitrarily" and Raab often reacted late in cases of doubt, "without fully understanding the situation". Thousands of emails were only opened (but not read) so that the house management could say that all calls for help were recorded. Not even five percent of the 75,000 to 150,000 people seeking help received support. "It is clear that some of those left behind have since been murdered by the Taliban," he wrote.

Marshall was a member of the "Special Cases Crisis Team", which examined rescue calls from Afghans with "links to Great Britain". Elsewhere, the Afghans who had worked directly for the United Kingdom, such as translators for the army, were looked after. His colleagues were allowed to refuse overtime and night work because "work-life balance" was a declared goal of the house management, wrote Marshall. After eight hours one was "encouraged" to finish the work. On a Saturday morning in August, he was the only one who processed the emails.

Communication was "made even more difficult because some colleagues were working from home".

Raab described Marshall on Tuesday as a "relatively subordinate" employee and pointed out that more than 1,000 State Department employees were involved in "Operation Pitting".

"Some of the points of criticism seem to me to be a bit detached from the situation at the time, the operational pressure," said Raab.