In the same way, after the failure of the July 20 "putsch" of 1944, the families of Erwin Rommel, Franz Halder, Friedrich Fromm and Günther von Kluge were punished by being cut off from the monthly payments from "Konto" 5. In the case of Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, it was demanded that his family pay back all of the bribe money he had taken from "Konto" 5 since the money was given as a reward for loyalty to the Führer, which Witzleben was evidently not. The illicit nature of these payments was underlined by Lammers who would warn an officer that was to receive money from "Konto" 5 not to speak about these payments to anyone and to keep as few written records as possible.