Wheeler-Bennett who had lived in Berlin between 1927–34 and who met Trott during his visits to London in 1939 wrote that he "...had about him a certain confused political mysticism, a vague Hegelianism which induced in him, not, to be sure, the worship of the "Führerprinzip", but a deep veneration for German military and political traditions, and what he believed to be the innate integrity of the German soul".