• Austria and Germany. The 1864 border was confirmed in the 1907 German-Danish Optant Treaty, but Danish North Schleswigers continued to argue for a plebiscite...
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    between Denmark and the Empire which was finalized through the sign of the Optant Convention in 1907. Raben-Levetzau held the post until 1908 when he resigned...
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    November 2021). "Les optants, ces Alsaciens–Lorrains qui choisissent de rester français après la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870" [The optants, the Alsatians...
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    naval installations in the area and thus traded for it. A "grandfathering"/optant approach prevented the inhabitants of the islands from forfeiting advantages...
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    ADO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Optanten für Deutschland or Association of Optants for Germany); it was mirrored in Trento (Trentino) by the Corpo di Sicurezza...
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    in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Optanten für Deutschland (Association of Optants for Germany). Those who chose to stay, called Dableiber, mainly banded...
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    1941, one Josef Webhofer (a former resident of South Tyrol, Italy, and an Optant) paid 300,000 Reichsmark (equivalent to 1 million euros in 2021) to obtain...
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    opting for Estonian citizenship (those who opted were called optandid – 'optants') and returning to their fatherland. An estimated 40,000 Estonians lived...
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    expulsion of several optant editors, were careful to appoint none but German subjects, the vengeance of the authorities fell upon optant type-setters and...
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    November 2021). "Les optants, ces Alsaciens-Lorrains qui choisissent de rester français après la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870" [The optants, the Alsatians...
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  • part of Imperial Germany. A significant number of inhabitants, known as "optants", chose to retain their Danish citizenship and refused to take up a German...
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    Bevin Boys Association is trying to trace all 48,000 Bevin Boy conscripts, optants or volunteers who served in Britain's coal mines during and after the war...
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    Hungary. Hungary will resolve all issues related to the transplantation of optants in a broad and accommodating manner. Romanian subjects of Hungarian race...
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    Hungary. Hungary will resolve all issues related to the transplantation of optants in a broad and accommodating manner. Romanian subjects of Hungarian race...
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    Lhuillier" in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, French Citizenship Declarations (Optants), 1872, ancestry.com Citizenship Records; 1881 United Kingdom census, Elphinstone...
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    passed the Algeciras Act. As foreign minister, he also signed the so-called Optant Agreement with his Danish colleague Johan Henrik von Hegermann-Lindencrone...
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    Retrieved 13 September 2015. Gerald Steinacher (2010). "Adolf Eichmann: Ein Optant aus Tramin". University of Nebraska – Lincoln. p. 329. Retrieved 26 September...
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  • 2019. "À Annecy, le chef Laurent Petit donne "du sens à sa cuisine" en optant pour du 100% local" (in French). Geo.fr. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 3 March...
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    anti-Bolshevik work Notes of a Writer. In 1923 he emigrated to Poland as an optant (his mother was Polish), where he edited the newspaper For Liberty! (За...
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    were called "optants". Serbian optants changed their land in Hungary for the land of the Hungarian optants in Yugoslavia. A group of optants settled along...
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    l'Armée in Paris. Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, French Citizenship Declarations (Optants), 1872 Françoise d'Eaubonne, L'Amazone sombre : vie d'Antoinette Lix, 1837-1909...
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  • Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. About two-thirds of the Serbs (called optants) left Hungary in the following decade. Almost the whole Serb population...
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    personnel and officials stationed on Polish territory) were regarded "tacit Optants". According to the Minorities Treaty (also called the "Little Versailles...
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    three years he represented Hungary before the League of Nations in the optants' case, which had long been a matter of world and national public opinion...
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    France intérieure), soon growing in number to 80,000 through Lutheran Optants from the annexed areas and other immigrants, had to reorganise their religious...
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  • Declarations (Optants), 1872 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: ARFIDO S.A. Les Optants d'Alsace Lorraine...
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    or remain Germans. Many ethnic Germans emigrated to Germany (so-called optants, who opted not to become Poles). This emigration and intra-Polish migration...
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    p. 10. Ancestry.com. Alsace-Lorraine, France Citizenship Declarations (Optants), 1872 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc...
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    Declarations (Optants), 1872 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: ARFIDO S.A. Les Optants d'Alsace Lorraine...
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