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Partial translation of document 3341-PS

           OFFICIAL GAZETTE FOR THE OCCUPIED DUTCH
                   TERRITORIES, YEAR 1941
            [Verordnungsblatt fuer die besetzten
                      Niederlaendischen
                 Gebiete] Part 32, Page 622
        Third Order of the Reich Commissioner for the
                       Occupied Dutch
        Territories concerning Certain Provisions in
                         Connection
        with Netherlands Nationality, August 8, 1941.
     Pursuant to Section 5 of the decree of the Fuehrer
                         concerning
        the exercise of governmental authority in the
                       Netherlands of
      May 18,1940 (RGB1, I, p. 778), I hereby order as
                          follows:

                          Section 1

(1)  A Netherlands national acquiring German nationality
  shall not be deemed to have lost Netherlands nationality
  unless he in person, or, if a minor, his legal
  representative actin on his behalf,
  shall renounce by declaration Netherlands
  nationality within one year after acquisition of
  German nationality.
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                          Section 2

A declaration made in accordance with subsection 1
of Section 1 shall take effect as of the date on
which the declarant shall have obtained German
nationality.

                          Section 3

This order shall take effect as of the date of
publication.
The Hague, August 8, 1941.
               Reich Commissioner for the Occupied
                                 Dutch Territories
                                     SEYSS-INQUART