This is CBSi on 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.

And what I learn about Owen 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 Romo 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. If you add on to that the way that he seemed to be so

callous with the lives of troops, he wouldn't listen to expert comment,

including his own. I think by Normandy, we see in Ronald's letters to Lucy that he's beginning to change his mind about

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