Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2002) 59-75
Keywords:
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses the way in which the new nation-state of Germany used the tool of granting citizenship, i.e. naturalization, to exclude others, particularly Jews, based on the model of Prussia. Economic, ethnic, and religious criteria played important roles, although they were sometimes camouflaged. "Ostjuden" were considered undesirable. The 1913 Citizenship Law, however, did not set racist criteria for naturalization. Thus, while discrimination was possible, one must differentiate between this law and the 1935 Nuremberg Law, in which Nazism set absolute racist criteria that excluded Jewish citizenship. Jews could neither be nor become Germans. In 1949 German law returned to the 1913 model, which encouraged ethnic and cultural homogeneity but did not require it.
Note:
Including the status of Jews.
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