Today the right of citizenship is primarily achieved by birth within the borders of a state. Every year, these formations called states, take into themselves poison-elements which they can scarcely overcome. Aside from becoming a citizen through birth, there is the possibility of naturalisation later. Racial objections play no role whatsoever: they do not even pay any attention to physical health.
The folkish state divides its inhabitants into three classes: citizens, subjects and foreigners. The status of subject is acquired by birth. It does not confer the right to hold public office, nor to carry on political activity in the sense of active or passive participation in elections. As a matter of principle, the race and nationality of ever subject must be determined. The subject is free at anytime to renounce his status of subject and become a citizen in the country whose nationality corresponds with his own. The foreigner is distinguished from the subject only by the fact that he is a subject of a foreign state.
After completion of his military duty, the right of citizenship is most solemnly bestowed on the irreproachable, healthy young man. It is the most precious document for his whole life on Earth. With it he enters upon all the rights of citizen ship and partakes of all its advantages. The bestowal must be associated with a solemn oath to the national community and the state. It must be a greater honour to be a street-cleaner and citizen of this Reich, than a king in a foreign state. The citizen is privileged as against the foreigner. He is the lord of the Reich. The German girl is a subject and only becomes a citizen when she marries. But the right of citizenship can also be granted to female German subjects active in economic life.
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