Chapter 8.
Leopold Lehmann is my new bodyguard. I acquired him quite recently. Both Frohwein and Hiltin–gen had agreed that, owing to the increase in terrorist attacks, I needed extra protection. Since I knew about their intention well before they came to express it, I rang my friend Helmut Ehrlich at the Embassy in Paris asking him, as a special favour to send me Leopold who had been enlisted in the Wehrmacht and in all probability would shortly be joining the armies on the eastern front. What made Leopold a special case was that in January last year his parents had been to visit me in my chambers, papa Lehmann revealing to me what I knew already, that he and his wife were Jewish. What I didn't know was that their son had been given the protestant faith “because we saw what was coming an
