Language:
French
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
38 (1988) 390-402
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses Swiss immigration policy regarding war prisoners and deported civil workers in Germany at the very end of the war (March 1945). The Swiss authorities struggled to maintain neutrality, caught between Allied pressures and German intransigence, and delegated action to the International Red Cross. Fearing an invasion by "displaced persons", Swiss officials tried to "make order" in the humanitarian actions and limit admissions: priority was given to Western deportees, Eastern Europeans were rejected, and about 3,000 Jews from Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt expelled by the Germans to the Swiss border were only reluctantly accepted.
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