Miss Rathboneasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the 40,021 persons registered with the police as of German nationality include children as well as adults; and if Austrians, members of the Forces or Mercantile Marine, persons interned in the Isle of Man and persons of former Ger- 418W man nationality. but now stateless by German law are included.
§ Mr. H. MorrisonThe figure of 40,021 persons registered with the police as of German nationality does not include children under the age of 16 or members of the Forces, who are not required to register with the police, but does include seamen and also persons interned in the Isle of Man who were so registered before internment. It was announced in 1943 that any alien then registered as German, who could furnish to the police with whom he was registered satisfactory evidence that he possessed Austrian citizenship when Germany annexed Austria, might on application be registered as Austrian. Germans deprived of their nationality under Nazi laws are as a rule regarded as German for the purposes of the Aliens Order, 1920.