The Federal Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe, the highest legal authority in the West German Republic, has ruled that emigrants who acquired foreign citizenship while in exile and resumed permanent residence in Germany only after the Federal Basic Law entered into force, must still be considered as German citizens.
The court ruling, it was disclosed today, was made in the case of a Jewish emigrant who had returned to Germany for permanent residence and who was the object of extradition proceedings in connection with criminal charges in Switzerland. The high courts ruling reversed the 1956 action of the Munich court which ordered the man held for extradition.
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