Swiss immigration rules treated Jewish emigrants as mere visitors with tourist visas

Evidence

Only Horkheimer had an unlimited residency permit, so only he could have a home with all his furniture there. Pollock, Marcuse and I could not do this: we had to keep our libraries and furniture in the transit depository of the Customs Office in Geneva. We remained visitors. We had only tourist visas, and every few weeks or so we had to go across the border to Bellegarde and reenter with a new visa. And there was much more. We often found that Jewish emigrants were scrutinized closely, and in their cases regulations were enforced most strictly. We took this as an indication that fascism would eventually spread to all of Europe. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 534 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1477</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Swiss authorities denied stable residence to Jewish emigrants from Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 534; A single Carnegie board member’s dissent secured visas for many Jewish refugees — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1477

Related

• Swiss authorities denied stable residence to Jewish emigrants from Germany. (similarity 0.90)
• A single Carnegie board member’s dissent secured visas for many Jewish refugees (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Swiss authorities denied stable residence to Jewish emigrants from Germany. #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 534
• A single Carnegie board member’s dissent secured visas for many Jewish refugees #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1477