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This is CBS I and the World with Professor Lloyd Clark. He's Director of Research at the

Center for Army Leadership at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. That is why the major

theme here is leadership, not who wins the battles, but how the men responded to the leader,

how the junior leaders learned from the senior leaders. We'll begin with Erwin Rommel, only

because he's executed as a traitor by Adolf Hitler. What I learned about Erwin Rommel is that

his wife, Lucy, never, never relented on the idea that he was persecuted because he was

successful and that he was not involved in the plot against Hitler. But then again, Lucy

was looking at it from the point of view of a survivor of the Second War in Germany, which

was a deprived land for many years afterwards. Not until the Marshall Plan showed up in the

late 40s. Did Germany stop starving? So I don't ask Lucy Rommel to have an opinion that

stands up in the 21st century. Professor, the fact that there was a plot against Hitler

recommends all of these officers. Is there a moment you can see in what we have of the letters

to Lucy or his memoirs where Rommel realized that he was working for the devil?

I think that what we see increasingly is Rommel recognizing that

Hitler was a very flawed man, not necessarily as a leader or even as a politician,

but as a personality. His behavior traits were something that Rommel increasingly didn't like.

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