English Translation

On 10 October 1938, 76 nationalities who had a home right in some of the municipalities of the former Czech and Moravian-Silesian countries acquired German nationality with effect from 16 March 1939, unless it was already acquired under Section 1 of the German-Czechoslovak Treaty on citizenship and the option of 20 November 1938 with effect on 10 October 1939. Based on § 2 cit. the regulation does not acquire German nationality pursuant to § 1 who has lost Czechoslovak nationality and acquired other nationality, or who was residing in the former Czech-Slovak countries of Slovakia or Carpathian Ukraine on 16 March 1939. The wife did not acquire the German nationality in accordance with § 1 unless it was acquired by her husband. German nationals residing in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia also used the rights of the protectorate's nationals (§ 3). (170) The other residents of Bohemia and Moravia became nationals of the Protectorate of Bohemian and Morava (Staatsangehörige des Protektorates Böhmen und Mähren) pursuant to Article 2 (2) of the Decree, for which a protectorate decree was later issued No.1940 Coll. on the protectorate jurisdiction of 11.1.1940. (171) In accordance with this Regulation, with effect from 16 March 1939 they became members of the Protectorate of former Czech-Slovak state citizens, i.e. state citizens who were Czech-slovak citizens until the collapse of the former Czech Republic by the establishment of the Slovak State, by the occupation of the Podkarpathian Russians and by the setting up of the Czech and Moravian Protectorates, who on 16. On 10 October 1938 they were resident in a municipality of former Czech-Slovak countries, connected to the German Empire at the time, but retained the Czech-slovak nationality or re-acquired the option. They were also protectorate members of the Czech nationality who had their home right in Slovakia and in the Karpatská Ukraine on 16 March 1939 (§1). The acquisition of the Protectorate jurisdiction also applied to family members, i.e. those persons who, according to the above