Hitlerist Government of Thuringia Able to Veto Naturalisation of Alien Jews in Prussia and Other Ger

The veto exercised by the Hitlerist Minister of the Interior of the State of Thuringia, Dr. Frick, and the Thuringian Government which is under Hitlerist control, is sufficient to prevent a Jew of good character who has lived in Germany for as much as twenty years, and whom the Prussian Government wants to give citizenship, from being able to acquire his naturalisation as a German citizen.

This was revealed to-day in Parliament, by the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Herr Severing, when he replied to a protest made by Deputy Otto Nuschke, of the Democratic State Party, against the Government’s rejection of numerous naturalisation applications by Jewish aliens of good character who have lived in the country for twenty years, although the law requires only ten years residence to be eligible for citizenship.

The Prussian Government favours the acquisition of citizenship by aliens of good character, Herr Severing, who is a leading Social Democrat and the organiser of the anti-Hitlerist movement said, and the Federal Minister of the Interior, Dr. Wirth, has called upon the Governments of the other States to act in accordance with the law by granting citizenship to aliens, but the Hitlerist Government of Thuringia has exercised its veto, and thus makes it impossible for Prussia or any other State to naturalise Jewish aliens. Under the law of the Republic the veto of any one of the States is sufficient to prevent citizenship being accorded to anyone, so the Thuringian veto prevents Prussia from granting naturalisation to aliens whom it wishes to have as citizens.