🔶 Continuous increase in demand for German citizenship by Nazi victims.
According to the answer given by the Federal Government of Germany to the question of the Catholic News Agency of this country, the number of applications for "receiving German citizenship due to reparations" has increased greatly.
According to Spiegel, Germany, according to this institution, in recent years, it has received more than 170,000 citizenship applications from people who were persecuted and persecuted during the Nazi era in Germany or from their children and grandchildren from all over the world.
According to the announcement of the Federal Bureau of Statistics of Germany, in 2025 alone the number of cases of granting citizenship in this way increased by almost 60% and reached approximately 11,500 cases. Most of the applicants were positive.
Last year, 5,924 people with captive citizenship applied for German citizenship, while this figure equates to 3,640 people in 2024. Last year, 2,995 people from the United States applied. In 1508 cases this type of citizenship was granted to people from European countries.
The German Federal Office for Administrative Affairs is responsible for processing this type of citizenship. According to the German constitution, this option exists for some people and their descendants who were deprived of German citizenship by the Nazi regime.
From 2021, the range of eligibles has expanded to include a number of people and their children who were never able to obtain German citizenship due to persecution and persecution by the Nazis. In most cases these are Jewish people who were persecuted and persecuted during the Holocaust or the killing of millions of Jews during Nazi Germany in World War II.