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Sir

John Wheeler 1902 – 9 December 1975) was a conservative English historian of

German and diplomatic history, and

the official biographer of King George VI. He was well known in his lifetime, and his

interpretation of the role of the German Army influenced a number of British

historians. Wheeler-Bennett was born in Kent, the son of a prosperous importer.

He was educated at Wellington House school in Westgate on Sea and then at Malvern College and did not regard his youth as a happy

one. His health was poor; he did not attend university or join the military. In

the early 1920s he worked as an aide to Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm in the Middle East and Berlin, then from 1923 to 1924 was in the publicity department

of the League of Nations in Geneva. After that, he was appointed as director of the

information department of the Royal

Institute of International Affairs and was editor of its Bulletin

of International News between 1924 and 1932. Wheeler-Bennett lived in

Germany between 1927 and 1934 and witnessed at first-hand the final years of

the Weimar Republic and

the rise of Nazi Germany. During his

time in Berlin, he became an unofficial agent and advisor to the

British government on international events. He also enjoyed some success as a

horse-breeder. In 1933 Wheeler-Bennett told the Royal

Institute of International Affairs: Hitler, I am convinced, does not want a war. He is susceptible

to reason in matters of foreign policy. He is greatly anxious to make Germany

self-respecting and is himself anxious to be respectable. He may be described

as the most moderate member of his party. Wheeler-Bennet

wrote a biography of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, and

his book The Forgotten Peace was a study of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In

the years before the Second World

War, Wheeler-Bennett befriended or was on speaking terms with a

number of significant people in Europe. He had contact with Heinrich Brüning, Basil Liddell Hart, Franz von Papen, Lord Tweedsmuir, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Leon Trotsky, Hans von Seeckt, Max Hoffmann, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Benito Mussolini, Robert Bruce Lockhart, Karl Radek, Sir Robert Vansittart, Kurt von Schleicher, Isaiah Berlin, Tomáš Masaryk, Engelbert Dollfuss, the

former Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Louis Barthou, Lord Lothian, Winston Churchill, and Dr Edvard Beneš. After the war, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic

of Appeasement, and ten years after the Munich Agreement he wrote a book condemning it.