Právní institut tzv. říšskoněmeckého občanství v expanzivní a rasistické politice nacistického Německa v letech 1935‒1945

• Authors: František Emmert

Title variants

EN

The Legal Institution of the Reich Citizenship in the Expansionary and Racial Policy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

From the outset, it was clear what the Nazi movement stood for, as most of its ideas and political aims had been promulgated quite openly and plainly. Pure aggression was among the characteristic features of Nazism. Nazi ideology, based on the feeling of exceptionality, emerged from anti-Semitism and extreme nationalism. Only individuals of German blood – for whom the term Volksgenossen (fellow countrymen) was coined ‒ were considered “members of the nation“. Jews, on the other hand, were deemed to be parasites and the archenemy of Germany. Everything was to be given a “legal frameework“. A decision was soon taken to issue two new laws – the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour. The Reich Citizenship Law stipulated that only individuals of “German or kindred blood“ may be Reich citizens. During the Nazi occupation, German citizenship filtered into what is today the Czech Republic. Under the German legal norms of the time, individuals of German origin acquired the Reich citizenship.

Keywords

EN

History; the 20th century; Nazi Germany; the Reich Citizenship; racism; nationalism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 141-153

Contributors

author

František Emmert

• Ústav státu a práva Akademie věd České republiky, Praha, Czech Republic