The guidelines, published by the Federal Election Leader,
recognise foreign citizens as valid Germans if they are of German
descent and can produce evidence of blood relationship to members
of a German family in earlier generations. Relevant evidence is to
be submitted to German embassies and consulates in foreign
countries. The Certificate of Descent will also be evidential, even
if German descent reaches back more than a hundred years. The
German authorities will accept documents relating to the raising of
SS units in occupied countries. The selection of
,,species pure"blood will be valid for this purpose.
The subjection of citizens of foreign states to German law is conclusively established by the issue of a German passport. In this way Berlin has incorporated several hundred thousand east Europeans and can call them to their duties as Geman citizens - amongst other things, to service in the German army. Those expatriate Germans now mobilised will be simultaneously an important source of intelligence and also be given preference in the international undertakings of German firms in eastern Europe. Additionally, whoever can make a plausible case that he lived in Germany for at least three months since the establishment of the Federal Republic, is also entitled to vote (being of German descent).
The subjection of citizens of foreign states to German law is conclusively established by the issue of a German passport. In this way Berlin has incorporated several hundred thousand east Europeans and can call them to their duties as Geman citizens - amongst other things, to service in the German army. Those expatriate Germans now mobilised will be simultaneously an important source of intelligence and also be given preference in the international undertakings of German firms in eastern Europe. Additionally, whoever can make a plausible case that he lived in Germany for at least three months since the establishment of the Federal Republic, is also entitled to vote (being of German descent).
,,Personal Disadvantage"
It is known to the Berlin authorities that this call to the
polls is political arrogance which attacks the internal political
affairs of foreign countries. The German Election Leader
(Wahlleiter*) felt it was necessary to warn foreign citizens who
made use of the offered German voting rights. In an official
announcement, which stands the international law of citzenship on
its head, Berlin advised the so-called expatriate Germans as
follows
,,If the government of the state in which you live makes
simultaneous demands on you as its own citizen, you should
immediately inform the authorities of the state whose nationality
you hold together with German citizenship, and ask them to state
whether you may expect any personal disadvantages arising from your
participation in the election".
