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Rudel as the “prime example of the kind of man” to which the destiny of the refugees
was consigned. 15
Thus, while the Evian Conference was ostensibly convoked to aid the rescue of
the victims of German persecution and potentially save lives, some members were
actively moving to cut off all routes of escape. The road to salvation would, as time will
reveal, become a possible route to extinction. The report of the Technical Sub-
Committee and the closing comments of the delegations themselves would clearly
demonstrate the ineffectualness and, perhaps, the detachment from reality of the
Conference itself.
configured as a Star of David was utilized by the Federal Government in 1919. Furthermore, there are
examples of documentation antedating Rothmund’s negotiations with the Germans (1936-1938 and
continuing into 1940) that were marked by officials (on the Federal and Canton level) by two forms of the
“J” stamp. Commercial traveler identity cards for foreigners and Jewish Swiss citizens were stamped with a
red “Jew” next to the column for citizenship. Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland—Second
World War, eds. “Switzerland and Refugees in the Nazi Era” (Bern, Switzerland: 1999), 73, 74.
15 Adler-Rudel, “The Evian Conference,” 250.
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