As for Himmler, he had proved loyal to his Führer once again. In doing so he not only acted against his first chief, Gregor Strasser, and his early friend and mentor, ‘the good captain Röhm’, but had woven an intricate plot of deception around them first. The man who had superseded him as Police President of Munich, August Schneidhuber, was also liquidated, and Diels would have been had Göring not intervened and warned him;
