- My maternal grandparents, both Holocaust survivors, were stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazis. - In 2021, I used a specific German law to "restore" my citizenship. I now have a German passport. - Since 2016, approximately 7,320 have applied for German citizenship. As my mother and I sat in an office at the German Embassy in the Belgravia district of central London, having just been handed a pack of Haribo, a Bundesflagge pin, and our citizenship papers, we looked at each other contemplatively. We were officially German. This moment was the culmination of three years of bureaucracy...