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...eyed children, who must have thought they had awakened in the midst of a carnival. "I came for her," said a young father, hoisting his daughter into his arms. "She deserves more than a life in East Germany." The first signs were promising. Because Bonn acknowledges only one German citizenship, the refugees were automatically recognized as citizens and as such were showered with gifts and benefits. Mountains of donated clothes piled up at the reception camps, and the refugees received a minimum of $125 to cover immediate expenses. As citizens, the refugees were also entitled to unemployment payments...
West Germany, which offers East Germans automatic citizenship and help getting settled, has set up refugee camps in Bavaria...
...Germany too the treatment of Jews kept getting worse. The Nuremberg racial laws of 1935 deprived them of German citizenship and forbade them to marry or have sexual relations with "Aryans." In 1938 they were barred from practicing law or medicine or engaging in commerce. Along with such laws came all forms of discrimination -- signs barring them from grocery stores or drugstores or even whole towns -- and the constant threat of violence from any bad-tempered policeman, any unruly crowd...
...German Party. It also gave him his instructions, which Henlein himself once summed up: "We must always demand so much from the Czechs that we can never be satisfied." When Czech President Eduard Bene first asked Henlein what he wanted, the list included political autonomy, payment of damages, separate citizenship for Sudeten Germans and freedom to practice "the ideology of Germans." Bene refused...
...father vanished into the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, but Stolar lived on. He served in combat with the Soviet army in World War II, but he retained his U.S. citizenship. After the war he worked as a translator and announcer for Radio Moscow. In 1975 Stolar got permission to emigrate to Israel. But as he and his family approached their plane, Soviet officialdom snatched them back -- and covered them in bureaucratic darkness until President Reagan took up their cause...