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

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English Translation

The Reichsführer-SS,Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, states the view that even Germanic countries should be designated only if their compulsory military service with that in the German Reich is not collier and according to their nationality right the acquisition of nationality by a foreigner without loss of his nationality is possible; after that, only Norway and the Netherlands would be eligible.However, the Reichskommission für die betreffenten Norwegen has reserved its opinion on this point for the time being. The Reichskommissar for the occupied Dutch territories has expressed the wish that the Netherlands should be designated; however, it asks that provision be made for the possibility that the German nationality will be lost if its retention is not desired in special cases.The Reichsführer-SS,Reichskommissioner for the consolidation of German ethnicity, wishes also for the The acquisition of Norwegian and Dutch nationality is a general restriction that the acquisition of one of these citizenships by a German national does not entail the loss of German nationality only if the German national has the express permission to acquire the Norwegian or Dutch nationality. In the case of the Netherlands, such a permit should be granted only in cases where there is a special German interest in the possession of dual nationality; the Reichsführer-SS,Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstum, considers such an interest to be given to the Germans who are employed in Norway or the Netherlands. are active as well as with the Germans, who do together with Norwegians of the Netherlands in the Waffen-Ss service. If the Reich's commissioners in Norway and the Netherlands were to join the view that the additional data consultation should only be limited to relatively few cases, the question arises whether it is not the one in § 25 para.2 RuStAngG. In the individual case, despite the acquisition of foreign nationality, it is sufficient to allow the German nationality to be maintained.