The Federal Council has adopted a new regulation requiring that applicants for naturalization as German citizens must be able to prove twenty years continuous residence in Germany.
This provision excludes from German citizenship the majority of the East European Jews in Germany who have settled in the country since the war.
The new regulation does not involve any change in the new Prussian aliens law which came into force on July 1st, under which no alien can be expelled from the country who has resided in Prussia for five years or in Germany for ten years.
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