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120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland

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A 30: Photo/ postcard size/ portrait/ black and white/ policeman

A 30: Photo/ postcard size/ portrait/ black and white/ policeman

At the beginning of October 1954 I took up my post in Zurich. I had to report to public office no. 1 at the headquarters. On that day about fifty men, all between twenty-five and thirty years old, coming from all different regions of Switzerland, took up service.

Charly O., born 1928, from Turtmann in Wallis, Switzerland