I was thinking along the lines of when Fidel Castro sent Che Guevara to Bolivia to get him out of the way.
More likely was that the General was the equivalent of Reinhard Heydrich.
Hitler told Himmler, that if anything happened to Heydrich, Himmler wouldn’t live 24 hours afterwards. Heydrich made a lot of enemies within the SS, I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody knew of the plot to kill him, but didn’t do anything about it.