General Discussion

Will stricter standards apply for certain government benefits or for government employment?

Fortunately we have a model for this:

Nazi Germany was a society obsessed with racial purity. Racial categories determined whether a person could get or retain a job in the civil service, become a member or a leader in Nazi organizations, or an officer in the army. ‘Aryan’ ancestry was also a precondition for obtaining social entitlements from the Nazi welfare state. During the war, the ability to prove that one did not have Jewish ancestors became a question of life and death. In this context, genealogical practices assumed an unprecedented importance. Eric Ehrenreich's book shows how the regulations and requirements for a satisfactory proof of ancestry changed and varied depending on a person's individual circumstances. The so-called ‘large ancestral proof’ was demanded mostly from Nazi political leaders, who were asked to prove that their ancestors who were alive on 1 January 1800 or later had no ‘racially alien’ ancestry. Members of the SS had to make an even more stringent ancestral proof going back to all relatives alive in 1750.