STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1213, sig. 109-4/1967

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9-3 general award of German nationality to the Dutch and Flemish volunteers in the Wehrmacht or the Waffen-SS, while the Reichskommissar for the occupied Norwegian territories still considers a more detailed examination of the matter necessary and the CdZ. in Luxembourg, although there are no concerns about the general awarding of the In the light of this opinion of the main services concerned, it should, in principle, be preferable at the moment to refrain from grouping the nationality of volunteers. and with the possibility of individual citizenship, left open by the decree of 4 September 1939 (RGBl.I p.1.741), to be satisfied in appropriate cases, which the Reichsführer-SS.Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums,for volunteers from Germanic countries who are not under German sovereignty, without considering as the only solution. Luxembourg to make an exception, see below (a). On the group-like award of German nationality to the Dutch and Norwegian nationals in the service of the authorities of the Reichskommissare in the Hague and Oslo, I have asked the Reich Commissioners for their comments. (a) The Cdz. in Luxembourg proposes the group-by-group award of citizenship to the members of the People's Movement in Luxembourg, which were admitted to the NSDAP on the basis of their full probation.I have no doubts about this proposal, especially since German nationals who have been proven by law in Alsace E and Lorraine should also gain German citizenship on the grounds of their legal status.In this context, however, the question arises as to whether alignment with Alsace and Lorraine is not to be carried out as far as the Luxembourg 02088 nationals are concerned as well.