Context "In the summer of 1933, the Nazi regime revoked the German citizenship of 33 well-known Nazi opponents who had fled into exile.
In July 1933, a Reich law came into force that allowed the new National Socialist rulers to revoke their German citizenship. Affected by this law are consistent Nazi opponents who - threatened life and limb - have fled abroad. Expatriation makes them stateless and their assets can be confiscated at any time. The first expatriation list appears on August 25, 1933. It contains the names of 33 prominent opponents of the Nazi regime. In addition to social democratic and communist Top politicians such as Philipp Scheidemann, Otto Wels and Wilhelm Pieck, well-known journalists such as Georg Bernhard and Alfred Kerr or famous writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger and Heinrich Mann also included the Heidelberg human rights activist Emil Julius Gumbel in the first group of expatriates. By 1945, around 39,000 men and women were 'erased from the German national body' in this way, as the inhuman Nazi jargon put it. (ah)"
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