Chinese criminals found German Jewish roots
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- Chinese criminals allegedly claimed descent from Holocaust survivors and obtained German passports.
- Der Spiegel reported that German authorities found it difficult to scrutinize documents because of the sensitivity of the subject.
Chinese criminals posed as descendants of Holocaust survivors and used the claims to obtain German passports, according to an investigative report by Der Spiegel.
The case involved a highly sensitive subject, making German authorities more willing to examine the submitted documents than to trust their own doubts, the report said.
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Originally published by Magyar Nemzet in Hungarian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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