The withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rapid fall of Kabul, the hectic evacuation via the airport of the Afghan capital: the circumstances of this dramatic time are the focus of a parliamentary committee of inquiry of the Bundestag. The committee is concentrating on the period between February 29, 2020, when the American government and the Taliban agreed on the Doha agreement on the withdrawal, and September 30, 2021, when the mandate for the military evacuation from Afghanistan expired. On August 15, 2021, Kabul fell to the Taliban. Jens Plötner told the committee on Thursday that he did not think it was possible that this 15th could happen like this. “And that the Americans would reduce their presence so radically,” he added.