This caused some problems with the SS, which had designs on some of the estates that Guderian desired before a deal was worked out about which estate he could take.[25] His bribe of a 937 hectares estate, confiscated from its Polish owner, was tax-free for his entire life-time.[25] Historian Norman Goda wrote that after Guderian received his Polish estate, the doubts he had been expressing since late 1941 about Hitler's military leadership suddenly ceased, and he became one of Hitler's most ardent military supporters, or, as Joseph Goebbels described him in his diary, "a glowing and unqualified follower of the Führer".[26]