to shake tomorrow. join us and register now for the d. w. global media for in 2020, for the living in safety and freedom. exploring your identity or reconnection with family history. what does german citizenship mean for people with different backgrounds today? the main part of the german, even though i can have a say stuff with inside sales was impossible, low was about to pass fools. it was also about having to choose an identity and it felt like a uh, something positive it come out. so it was so terrible history, the

a melissa kind of coach sales at home in belin, born in germany to talk his parents. she grew up with 2 languages and 2 coaches. but when it came to citizenship as a teenager, she was faced with a choice when and what customer here. my mom came to me and asked, so what do you want to be german altercation? and then it took a little while to figure out what to do is this my, how much the as a child, melissa had tucker citizenship. later she chose to apply for a german passport instead. rules at the time when she could only have one of the of that there's been a child and having to choose between 2 identities. the coaches were just talking about a possible, but it was more than that. of course, that stuff. it's not a nice feeling that well not, but for me it was clear quite quickly for ms. ross and yes,

i would expect law if you would, jim and or if you was seen as jim and it was an advantage. i thought it was like, the more you fish in the best, so you off when you man to high and past as the best this to today that's changed. minister says she's parts of a generation now embracing that mixed identities and creating space for thoughts in german society. she runs a design agency focused on issues around diversity. it's name rank means color and tuck. yes. and she publishes a magazine exploring jasmine tech is culture. have permission to this, i created this image for myself where i'm not switching between 2 chairs off and put on a bench. i can slide around on that and i think that mindset has something that's missing also in campaigns on websites in so many things. so the business really came out of a need is the focus off, and participants have all of them started in germany today. well,

most of said if the population have what's known as the migration background, meaning they, or at least one of the parents was born without them and citizenship. the arrival of guesswork is in the mid 19 fifties march, the beginnings of the more types of society, the majority were from talking to came under a scheme for temporary workers to help each labor shortages most for tons the many states and brought that families to join them now people with tax rates make up germany's largest minority, great. many could benefit from a recent over or below a thing, the positive gentleman, citizenship. the change will also make jewels citizenship possible for many more people. previously, it was an exception. like for those from the people like melissa who once had to choose between 2 nationalities and will now be able to half bucks for the credit. it's big news by community and she wants to share it with ranks, follow as fast as i have a sent in donald. okay. hold on up as the hancock when preparing

a social media post route instagram page. that is what we want to let people know about this new lord. and then the post is also about identity and what a passport can mean to people must pass for on the door and also does the new allowing dual citizenship as long as the jew melissa says to the mindset used to be okay. you have to make a decision so that you can integrate better and choose to be one thing over the other. i think that was absolutely the wrong strategy. it can only ever be an advantage to have another aspect, another culture, another passport or another language. can market figure that's the reality and melissa's bell in may go ahead and take it. she says we should come into the supermarket and we're talking about in the ends of culture because what she hopes to gemini future as principal, i really want this to be something we can take for granted that we live alongside each other, many different cultures. we're living here together, but that's

a good statement that, that's not seen as a struggle or a conflict, but as an asset. so as an asset for german society, as well as its economy, the country needs more immigration and his desperately trying to attract skilled labor from abroad and more and more people and making gemini that long time home. in 2022, the number of people granted german citizenship had to 20 high move in a culture of them was serious. many arrives here in 2015 off to civil war broke outs, and the homelands one of them once a catch up almost 10 years after arriving in germany as a refugee. he's now jem and such as in the hub. to find all of this, i work so hard to do everything you can do in germany. alice, i'm a homeless, my level kind of nice on on kind of, i'm in the stores and getting the german passports at the end of it. the feels like

i finally made a tear and shaft of lots of 9 months. a flat board in syria age 21. along with his older brother. he's supposed to live here in belen lent german and started taking piano. but he hasn't seen the rest of his family for 10 years. my clothes fail, opal back home, because they can come to your on us and i couldn't travel anywhere else either then . or you just couldn't do it. unfortunately, on that's being, that's more than that. it's the item best, but now as my german passport makes it possible to kind of test my inbound so nothing that's a lot to know. i just didn't have the option. so that's why it's really important to have it. me grover's taste as much on full time product design as months. that is also family and budget and file install top saying he launched his 1st stop shop just a year off to coming to gemini, an app,

to help other refugees navigate the countries notorious bureaucracy. now that's part of his current venture, a platform supporting fellows, migrant entrepreneurs. is close to us. the no, i know i really believe that you commerce in germany have a different and unique perspective on the country and its structures as a vacation, alice on noisy question, or if they can look at germany with fresh eyes and say this. so that's not working . can you estimate us go, we could improve on this? and if so, that's a, that's a but it's also the job and the responsibility of the german site to accept that accept cancelled to allow people migrants to try out their ideas on the life and even tell them. so it's going to allow me the easy, easy and fast loan. so making society best if that's important to him and his new citizenship also means he now has the right to vote. can serious months

have felt politics had nothing to offer him here. he wants to make his voice count the entire 1st part of living and working in germany. as i can take part, i can have a say stop permit inside. he's already had his 1st opportunity and a local election of this city hold. while i'm talking nick talk, see what i'm looking forward to the next one, the federal election next year on the i'll actually be able to read the campaign posters. the parties put up around the city doesn't mean that they don't have a new meeting for me. he's not causing the next task on them by tying these. i can read them knowing it's also relevant to me or miss and the other part of it. but the best years on this fifty's off a month besides, he'll always have his syrian identity. but german citizenship means a sense of belonging here to in a democracy like germany,

citizenship means rights, freedom protection, as well as responsibilities. those to become naturalized citizens here have to declare in us saying no respect and not pulse. germany's basic little book constitution 50 a month 75 years since it was adopted in what was then west germany in may 1949. it's still the basis for unify gemini today. off to the 2nd level, the basic glow was designed to prevent the atrocities of the nazi period from ever happening again. the nazi strips, juice, and other minorities are set right to full citizenship during the holocaust state and that collaborate is mad at 6000000. james, the assets are amends of this stock bostic still shapes life in germany today. memorials like this one i remind of those who lost their lives. pick a goldsmith's jewish grandfather escapes, not fate. he fled nazi germany and found safety in england. what typically

a lot decades late to she is, reclaims german citizenship as to descend into someone persecuted by the nazis. that's her right under germany's basic, lo, now she lives here in poland. citizenship me is it 1st of the is very practical measure. so is about the, so present, say it's about me being german of a meeting. i will just, it will come and go as those where i like in germany that so, so about the sort of reckoning with the cost is about the citizenship is also to me by the german constitution. so for me, that's why it's such a so impulsive symbol, to have been able to have some reclaimed my german citizenship. so i should have who's has picked a right to soon to publish a book about his story today, had translator and publish that is visiting her at home in balance with a couple of things actually not interested in pop it because they pay in the book

the services german possible, but he used to get into engines hit the ground salsa and scouts. schmidt was stripped of his german citizenship by the nazis for me to come in. chapman has been pods of learning about my grandfather's life and this is much dates have as i come so that his memory gets carried for that. he died in 1963 so i never knew him. he could never have envisage. that's the honor which become german, but it feels like i've made that sort of a so yeah, that's all family connection with, with, with him. the only way that i can make a connection with a mazda is that, as well as her research and writing tape, assess the culture of remembrance in germany has helped to bridge the gap between then and now saying that there is always a tension the and like i say that that's the spot that german people by law,

you know that history really helps me overcome that tension. they also trying to understand, trying to or not so guess what happens and maybe try and learn from the pos, learning from the cost. unfortunately, new beginnings, german citizenship, passports and politics. but more than that, people, and a place to call home and with almost 85000000 citizens. there's no one way to be gentlemen the on the trail of a nazi highest v, as of jewish families, whose prophecy was expropriated all searching for the last stop. what happened to

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