It was a matter of nationality (family bounds, schools you attended, school/univeristy friends, friends, etc), not race. A Swiss being black could have been hir

It was a matter of nationality (family bounds, schools you attended, school/univeristy friends, friends, etc), not race. A Swiss being black could have been hired. Switzerland is a small village, so if you break the law, everybody will know it. So locals tend to respect the law (social pressure). Today a company would be bbqed in the news paper for such a heavy policy.