Viktor Lutze
Viktor Lutze, SA-Obergruppenführer and Chief of Staff of the Sturmabteilung (SA,) born December 28, 1890 in Bevergen, Westphalia, winner of the Iron Cross First Class in World War I and the Nazi Golden Party Badge, survivor (because he had informed Adolf Hitler about Ernst Röhm’s anti-régime activities,) of the purge against the SA on June 30, in 1934 (known as the Night of the Long Knives,) involved in a serious automobile accident on May 1, 1943 near Potsdam (but died during an operation at a Potsdam hospital May 2, 1943) said in February 1934 of Adolf Hitler: “Hitler is a traitor. We’ll have to send him on a long vacation.” Hitler gave Lutze an elaborate state funeral in Berlin on May 7, 1943. (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)
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Wilhelm Burgdorf
Wilhelm Burgdorf, Army General of Infantry, born February 15, 1895 in Fürstenwalde, winner Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, chief of the Army personnel office, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, member of the Army Court of Honor that dismissed from active service the conspirators in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, brought poison to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in October 1944, committed suicide by gunshot in Berlin on May 2, 1945, on his mission to bring poison to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel: “Mission accomplished!” (2000 Quotations from Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich)