Debts due Germans residing abroad must not be paid either abroad or in Germany, a Berlin court ruled today, fining a woman 1,000 marks for having paid a debt to a German manufacturer residing abroad since March 31, 1933.
The woamn argued that she considered the manufacturer still a German citizen, since he had not renounced his citizenship and continued to maintain a factory in Germany. The court ruled, however, that the manufacturer had left Germany because of dissatisfaction with the regim. The woman should have been awared, the court said, that emigrants are no longer citizens.
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