It was a difficult call to make yet, whether anyone who could leave the country should. There was so much disbelief, so much incomprehension of what was happening. Surely things could not happen this way. Surely things could not happen this quickly. Perhaps they would be safe. After all, the inverts argued, Ernst Röhm was one of them and he was Hitler’s right-hand military man. He would never forsake his own kind. Hitler would never go after inverts if one of his top team was one. But what protection did transvestites have, Bertie wondered.
