Germany Eases Nationality Law For Descendants Of Holocaust Victims

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German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, (Photo Credit: M. Sohn/AP)

Berlin – German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced on Thursday plans to ease the country’s Nationality Law to make descendants of Nazi victims eligible for German citizenship.

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“Germany has to live up to its historic responsibility towards those who, as descendants of Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime, have suffered from disadvantages pertaining to Nationality Law,” Seehofer told Deutsche Welle.

“This is especially true for people whose parents or grandparents had to flee the country,” he continued. “With the decrees … we will create an efficient arrangement allowing those affected to apply immediately for German citizenship.”

Similarly, effective Sept. 1, 2020, Austria will offer citizenship to British Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors, thanks to changes to Austria’s nationality laws, which were approved unanimously on Thursday.

(JNS)


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GMalka
4 years ago

No thanks. The Muslims can have Germany. It is worthy to note, on New Year’s Eve (2015), more than 1,200 women were sexually assaulted in various German cities, including more than 600 in Cologne and about 400 in Hamburg. Such a thing has not happened since the Red Army
advanced into East Prussia in January 1945.

Gersh
Gersh
4 years ago

And you get and know this inforamtion how and why?