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The number of German citizenship applications from former Nazi refugees residing in Britain has increased significantly since the 2016 Brexit referendum, according to reports from the German publishing house Funke-Mediengruppe.
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Most of the plaintiffs are either former refugees from Nazi Germany or their descendants, according to reports reaching here Friday.
Konstantin Kuhle, a spokesman for the German Democratic Liberal Party (FDP), said the increase was clearly linked to the Brexit referendum and showed that "many Britons feel close to the EU" .
The number of "repatriation requests" received by German offices in Great Britain has increased from 59 in 2015 to 3,731 since 2016, according to reported information.
Under German law, any former German citizen whose citizenship has been revoked as a result of persecution by the Nazi regime has the right to claim German citizenship. This law also applies to the descendants of former German refugees.
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