The German government drafted a law Wednesday that would allow access to German citizenship for children and grandchildren who survived the Holocaust. Although there has long been a policy of returning citizenship to those wounded by the Nazi regime, it was not possible for all survivors and their families to regain their status as German citizens. , Deutsche welle (DW) reported.
Those who left Nazi Germany and renounced their citizenship before the Nazi government expelled all German-Jewish outsiders in 1941, for example, were unable to to recover later. Jewish Germans in the Nazi state were stripped of their rights. Anyone suspected of fleeing the Nazis was, after all, a stateless man.
And people born to a non-German father and a German mother before April 1, 1953, could not obtain German citizenship.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer explained that the change, even when allowed by law, will not “do the right thing” but is about “apologizing in great embarrassment,” he said. the German broadcaster noted.
He also said that if people want to be Germans despite “taking everything from their ancestors” it is “a great fortune for our country. ”
“This is an average move if they and their descendants receive legal opportunities to regain German citizenship.”
Austria changed its laws in 2019 because it did not previously allow the direct victims of Nazi Germany, meaning to live, to regain Austrian citizenship. Now they and their children and grandchildren can be Austrians if they want to.
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The issue of German citizenship law became more urgent after Brexit, as more British citizens sought to regain their citizenship in EU member states. In 2018, some 1,506 such applications were processed by the German state compared to just 43 in 2015. In June 2020, The defender he reported that the figure for UK travelers seeking 23-fold German citizenship rose in 2019 compared to 2015, a year before the Brexit referendum. The report noted that the majority of applications were submitted by UK citizens already living in Germany.