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So help me, find me a non-imperialist country or I'll 'civilize' every last one of these hostages!
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Well, the FRG (BRD) is the legal successor of the German Empire. The GDR (DDR) always emphasized, it/she is not.
That is so but the German Reich as an entity still exists but completely lost his people and all state organs, institutions and public authorities. Technically is still has land, that is occupied by FRG and Poland today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_Germany
There are some Germans that think they can declare themselves citizens of the German Reich. But that can't be as there are no authorities of the German Reich anymore that can conduct immigration processes.
What if they declare themselves as an immigration officer and print up themselves some citizenship papers?
Just because you declare to be someone doesn't make you that someone. ;-)
Right.
comes to mind.
Well, they essentially do that. Regularly, blue Deutsches Reich passports are found among the so called Reichsbürger. However, it is not considered 'immigration', since as they are German ~~nationals~~ natives they are not immigrating into the German empire.
That is somewhat true, yet following the theory of continued existence (Fortbestandstheorie), as both German states on German ground united into the BRD, the BRD is no longer only partially identical with the German empire, but subject-identical.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtslage_Deutschlands_nach_1945#Lage_nach_dem_Beitritt_der_DDR_zur_Bundesrepublik
Assuming one accepts the USSR and its bloc as inherently non-imperialistic.
If so, though, good news: the DDR still exists. There’s an uninhabited island off Cuba that Fidel Castro gifted to the DDR, which has not passed into possession of the Bundesrepublik.
The Ernst Thälmann Island (Cayo Ernesto Thaelmann) was only named after the KPD leader, but not gifted to the DDR in terms of its territory. While, the English Wikipedia article is not distinct in that point and mentions the island being "gifted", the German one is very clear, that only its name should honour the substitute saint of the DDR Ernst Thälmann while the territory remained part of Cuba.