The Swiss Foreign Office Report for 1933, dealing with its relations with Germany, is being widely reprinted in the German press. However, most newspapers, including the Voelkische Beobachter, omits all mention of those passages which refer to “non-Aryans.”
As reported from Geneva, the report in question disclosed that the Swiss embassy had notified the German government that arrangements existing between the two countries must be applied to all Swiss citizens irrespective of racial origin.
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