›Das Boot ist voll!‹ (›The lifeboat is full!‹), this sentence was mouthed by many Swiss during the Second World War. Rhetorically garnished, it was an expression of the fear prevailing in much of the Swiss population of an over-alienation of the country through Jewish refugees seeking asylum. This asylum essential for their survival was not granted to the lion's share of those who reached the country. The journalist and writer Alfred A. Häsler was one of the first to critically examine Switzerland's asylum policy in 1967, and through this opened the eyes of a broad cross-section of the general population to this dark chapter in Swiss history. Roger de Weck wrote an extensive preface especially for this edition.