. NMT04-T0761
Volume IV · Page 761
| (4) Children below the age of 18 on the key
date (1 September 1939 or 26 October 1939) take on their father's citizenship,
and if he is deceased or the children in question are illegitimate children,
that of their mother. Orphans under 18 years of age and children who have
reached their eighteenth birthday will be considered independently. (5) Women and children who assume the citizenship of their husband or father, acquire German citizenship irrespective of whether they are ethnic Germans or not. But they do not participate in this change of citizenship if they are Jews or of other alien blood. (6) All persons, who in accordance with the above acquire German citizenship in connection with the incorporation of the Eastern territories into the German Reich are to be registered separately. For this purpose they are to be issued 2 copies of a questionnaire of which a specimen copy has been enclosed. |
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| (12) If the German ethnic origin of the applicant has been clearly ascertained and if all other conditions for the acquisition of German citizenship have been met, the appropriate offices will issue him the citizenship papers free of charge. The wife and every child are to be issued separate citizenship papers. Persons living abroad are to be issued a certificate of origin instead of the citizenship papers. This certificate is to be sent by the courier service of the foreign office to the consular authorities for the applicant's place of residence. A record is to be kept of all citizenship papers or certificates of origin according to instructions under paragraph 8. Citizenship papers and certificates of origin are to have a special entry showing that the holder acquired German citizenship as a result of the incorporation of the Eastern territories into the Greater German Reich. |
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| The above-mentioned circular decrees of 29 March 1939 and 22 June 1939 are copied below: |
| a. Members of the German Race |
| (Circular Decree of the Reich Minister of
Justice le 5062 IV/39-5000e of 29 March 1939 — RMBIiV, page 783).
(1) The term "deutscher Volkszugehoeriger" (member of the German race) used in paragraph 1 of the German-Czechoslovak treaty dated 20 November 1938 concerning citizenship and option (Reich Law Gazette II, page 895) and the term "Volksdeutscher" used in Article 2 of the Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor, dated 16 March 1939, concerning the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Law Gazette I, page 485) both refer |
