title: Jews or Germans? Nationality Legislation and the Restoration of Liberal Democracy in Western Europe after the Holocaust
abstract: Statelessness continues to trouble today's international legal and political spheres. Despite the International Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, the stateless remain an unwelcome presence and awkward anomaly within an international human rights regime still fundamentally dominated by the nation state structure. In 1945, Marc Vishniak wrote that the stateless were “… restricted in their rights more than any other people and constitute the weakest chain in the link of human 
journal: Law and History Review