Wheeler-Bennett further wrote that Trott and his friend Count Helmuth von Moltke who came with him to London were both intense German nationalists who "...through they deplored the spirit of the Munich Agreement and the subsequent dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, expressed strong anti-Czech sentiments, and from neither was there forthcoming any indication that a 'de-nazified' Germany was be prepared to forgo Hitler's annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland.