Wehrmacht had done too little, too late, to overthrow the Nazis. He was also critical of Germany's largest right-wing party before the Nazi era, the German National People's Party, saying that their failure to accept the Weimar Republic was "more influenced by feelings of disloyalty to the Republic than of loyalty to the Kaiser," and ultimately led them to prop up Hitler. Final decades An Anglican, Wheeler-Bennett enjoyed life in the English countryside. In 1958 he became founding chairman of the Ditchley Foundation, the Anglo-American conference group. From 1959 until his death he served as historical adviser to the Royal Archives. In 1972 he was elected to the British Academy. Wheeler-Bennett was a follower of the Great Man school of history, and his writings usually explained historical events in terms of the leading personalities of the period. This view of history, together with his own conservative outlook, inclined him to make Winston Churchill a principal hero of his writings, as shown in his well-illustrated book The History Makers: Leaders And Statesmen of The 20th Century (1973). Sir John Wheeler-Bennett died of cancer in London on 9 December 1975, aged 73. Cultural depictions Wheeler-Bennett was portrayed by Tristan Sturrock in season 2, episode 6 ("Vergangenheit") of the historical drama television series The Crown (2017). Works Information on the Reduction of Armaments, with an introduction by Major-General Sir Neill L. Malcolm, 1925. online edition Information on the Renunciation of War, 1927–1928 with an introduction by Philip H. Kerr, 1928. online edition Disarmament And Security Since Locarno 1925–1931; Being The Political And Technical Background of the General Disarmament Conference, 1932, New York: Macmillan, 1932. The Wreck of Reparations, Being The Political Background of the Lausanne Agreement, 1932, 1933. online edition Documents On International Affairs: 1933 editor online The Pipe Dream Of Peace: The Story Of The Collapse Of Disarmament, William Morrow and Company, 1935. online edition Hindenburg: The Wooden Titan, London: Macmillan and Company, 1936. online free Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918, 1938. online free The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and Germany's Eastern Policy, Clarendon Press, 1939. The Defeat of the German Army, 1918, with Cyril Falls, Special Service Division: Army Service Forces, 1943. Munich: Prologue To Tragedy, 1948. The Nemesis Of Power: The German Army In Politics, 1918–1945, 1953, revised edition 1964. online free King George VI, His Life and Reign, St. Martin's Press, 1958. online free John Anderson, Viscount Waverley, St.