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...Sousa Mendes wrote visas for an estimated 30,000 refugees--about 10,000 of whom were Jewish--so that they could escape the German invasion of France, said Wheeler...
...Portuguese government, headed by dictator Antonio Salazar, had declared itself neutral at the opening of the war, but officials were still closely aligned with the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan, Wheeler said...
Salazar ordered his consulates not to issue visas to refugees unless they had a sponsor in Portugal, and "absolutely no Jews" were to be allowed entry to Portugal, according to Wheeler...
...government has denied all applications for visas. But I cannot allow these people to die," Wheeler said de Sousa Mendes told the crowd...
After three days of writing visas, Wheeler said, de Sousa Mendes collapsed from exhaustion...