<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, having been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Statelessness">stateless</a> for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Brunswick" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Free State of Brunswick">Brunswick</a> state official by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Klagges" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dietrich Klagges">Dietrich Klagges</a>, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany_(1919–1945)" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Germany (1919–1945)">Reichspräsident</a> in the 1932 election.<sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_25#cite_note-12" id="mwfg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfw">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt68" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFHinrichs2007">Hinrichs, Per (12 March 2007). <a class="external text" href="https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html" id="mwBvs" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship"</a>. <i id="mwBvw">Spiegel International</i>. Hamburg: Spiegel Gruppe. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200731042637/https://www.spiegel.de/international/revoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html" id="mwBv0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 31 July 2020<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBv4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBv8">7 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt68" class="Z3988" id="mwBwA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Spiegel+International&amp;rft.atitle=Hitler+May+Be+Stripped+of+German+Citizenship&amp;rft.date=2007-03-12&amp;rft.aulast=Hinrichs&amp;rft.aufirst=Per&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Frevoking-the-fuehrer-s-passport-hitler-may-be-stripped-of-german-citizenship-a-471168.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+25"></span></span>