Berlin wants to include questions about the Holocaust in its naturalization tests. “Anti-Semitism, racism and any form of contempt for humanity exclude the possibility of being naturalized,” says Interior Minister Nancy Faeser.
The resurgence of anti-Semitic acts in Germany since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has pushed the government of Olaf Scholz to question the conditions for naturalization that he has just relaxed. With the new legislation, it is possible to obtain a German passport after living in the country for five years and not eight as before.