OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR THE OCCUPIED DUTCH TERRITORIES, YEAR 1941 [Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten Niederlaendischen Gebiete] Part 32, Page 622.
Third Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories concerning Certain Provisions in Connection with Netherlands Nationality, August 8, 1941.
Pursuant to Section 5 of the decree of the Fuehrer concerning the exercise of governmental authority in the Netherlands of May 18, 1940 (RGB1, I, p. 778), I hereby order as follows:
Section 1
(1) A Netherlands national acquiring German nationality shall not be deemed to have lost Netherlands nationality unless he in person, or, if a minor, his legal representative acting on his be-
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half, shall renounce by declaration Netherlands nationality within
one year after acquisition of German nationality.
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Section 2
A declaration made in accordance with subsection 1 of Section 1 shall take effect as of the date on which the declarant shall have obtained German nationality.
Section 3
This order shall take effect as of the date of publication. The Hague, August 8, 1941.
Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Dutch Territories SEYSS-INQUART
Order declaring that Netherlands nationals acquiring German nationality will not lose their Netherlands nationality unless they renounce it, with provisions for the renunciation
Authors
Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Nazi official, Austria, Poland, Netherlands)
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892-1946)
- Born: 1892-07-22 (Stonařov)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Austria-Hungary; Nazi Germany
- Occupation: jurist; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Fatherland Front; Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Federal Chancellor of Austria (period: 1938-03-11 through 1938-03-13; replaced by: Anschluss; replaces: Kurt Schuschnigg); Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (period: 1945-04-30 through 1945-05-02; replaced by: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk; replaces: Joachim von Ribbentrop); Reichskommissar; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Employer: Austrian Federal Government; Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Official Gazette for the Occupied Netherlands Territories (German regime)
Date: 08 August 1941
Literal Title: Third Order of the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Netherlands Territories concerning Certain Provisions in Connection with Netherlands Nationality, August 8, 1941.
Defendant: Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3341
HLSL Item No.: 453264
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence.