Hitler paid his field marshals 4,000 Reichsmarks a month and gave Guderian a confiscated Polish estate

Hitler ran a secret fund called Konto 5, managed by Hans Lammers. It grew from about 150,000 RM in 1933 to about 40 million RM by 1945. Field marshals and grand admirals got 4,000 RM a month tax-free and other senior officers 2,000 RM. Birthday cheques were usually 250,000 RM. Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb got 250,000 RM in September 1941 and in 1943 a forest estate valued at 638,000 RM. Günther von Kluge was given a cheque reported at 500,000 RM in October 1942^†. Heinz Guderian was told to name the Polish land he wanted. The local Gauleiter refused his first choice, an estate three times larger. He then took Deipenhof (Głębokie) in the annexed Warthegau, valued at 1.24 million RM^†. Its Polish occupants had been evicted, and the estate was tax-free for his lifetime. Historian Norman Goda found that Guderian stopped criticising Hitler after he received it. Families of the 20 July conspirators were cut off, and Erwin von Witzleben's family was ordered to repay money. At Nuremberg, Walther von Brauchitsch denied taking payments, and his bank records showed 4,000 RM a month. After 1945 Deipenhof was back in Poland. Guderian lived in Schwangau until he died.