Archibald Buttle's death was partly inspired by a mix-up which occurred during 1934's Night of the Long Knives, in which various enemies of Adolf Hitler were arrested and executed. One of the people marked for death was an SA officer named Willi Schmidt, but Hitler's men mistakenly killed a music journalist named Willi Schmid. Unlike in this movie, where Buttle's death is dismissed as an administrative error and his widow is merely refunded the fines he was given, Hitler sent his deputy Rudolf Hess to personally apologize to Schmid's widow, and granted her the equivalent of a military widow's pension.

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