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NEW YORK - When Helen Springut was growing up, her parents wouldn't vacation in Germany or buy a German car. The legacy of the Holocaust was too bitter.
But Springut, 26, has been to Germany several times and doesn't think "all Germans are Nazis."
Now she is applying for German citizenship under a law that allows Jews who fled Hitler, and their children and grandchildren, to become naturalized Germans. For many people, that means receiving a European Union passport that can pave the way for living and working in Europe.
The German law, which has been on the books since the 1950s, applies to Jews who were stripped of German citizenship during the Nazi era and their descendants. It can also apply to communists and others driven from Hitler's Germany for political reasons.
I had always thought that Germany eased regulations on immigration for all Jews as a measure of atonement, not just those who have relatives who were German citizens pushed out of the country during the Nazi-era, but the article made no mention of that. Am I incorrect? From all that I've read, the vast majority of Germany's Jewish population is composed of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Ukraine, and have no historical ties to Germany, and they were able to emigrate with relative ease.
I think you are correct, but with the myriad of rules that compose German society, who knows what kind of contradictions emerge. But yes, Germany opened its doors to Jews decades ago.
I have a friend that she and her children have German (EU) passports as her father was born in Germany and managed to escape the Nazis during World War II.
Jews who go live to Germany after the Holocaust? Why? What for?
Political stability, job opportunities, high standard of living, EU citizenship, no crazy religious hardliners, no random attacks by hezbollah, ... There are more than enough reasons to move to Germany.
Jews who go live to Germany after the Holocaust? Why? What for?
Actually it's some Israelis. They are doing it just for the passports so if something really goes bad in Israel
then they have another country to run to without becoming a refugee.
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