A single Carnegie board member’s dissent secured visas for many Jewish refugees

Evidence

In the 1940s Keppel was also the only member of the Board of Appeal, which passed final judgement on visa applications from `enemy aliens’, who opposed tighter immigration regulations after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He thus succeeded in getting visas granted to many refugees who would otherwise have been refused them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1477

Categorization

• SHARE: A narrow, specific institutional-history fact about how one dissenting voice in a visa appeals board saved individual refugees - niche enough for a particular reader interested in US refugee policy mechanics.
• XREF: connects to: Swiss immigration rules treated Jewish emigrants as mere visitors with tourist visas