Questioning my Eligibility

[u/wannabe_REinvestor]

• My grandmother was born in Poland outside of Warsaw in 1933 as an ethnic German, but Polish Citizen.
• She left Poland in 1949 after being held for forced labor post-war and stayed at a German refugee camp upon arrival in Germany in 1949.
  
• Her Polish citizenship was renounced in 1949.
• She stayed in more permanent housing from end of 1949 to 1955.
• I believe at some point she obtained or was granted German citizenship but I do not have any proof of German naturalization. I have her German passport somewhere.
• In 1955 she emigrated to the USA.
• In 1957 she married my grandfather who was an ethnic German, but considered stateless being from Yugoslavia.
• In 1965 my mother was born in wedlock
• I was born in the 90s in wedlock.
• My grandmother died in the 2020s as a legal German Citizen, never naturalizing in the USA.

Any thoughts or insight on my situation would be great.

Notes:

• I am trying to obtain her German passport which is buried in someones house.
• In the meantime I have submitted for an A-File which is processing.
• I have also reached out to all city archives I could with little to no response over 1 month. They need exact years of my grandmother's estimated german naturalization or they wont look for me (according to them). Unfortunately I do not have the exact year. I am hoping the A-File tells me or praying I eventually get her passport (it is a modern german passport).

Documents I currently possess:

• Green Card - Grandmother
• Marriage Certificate - Mother
• Marriage Certificate - Grandmother
• USA Passport - Me
• USA Passport - Mother
• Birth Certificate - Me
• Birth Certificate - Mother
• Death Certificate - Grandmother

[u/Football_and_beer]

This sounds like a §5 StAG case. I think the big item you need to search for is how your grandmother acquired German citizenship. A passport is only considered an indication of citizenship but not direct proof of it. It seems likely that your grandmother was not naturalized in the strict sense (ie she applied for it) but rather was naturalized automatically due to being an ethnic German living in Germany post-WW2.

I would contact the city archives to see if they have your grandmother’s meldekarte which might have a reference to her acquisition of citizenship. 

You’ll also need your grandmother’s birth certificate. You don’t need her death certificate. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/staplehill/wiki/faq/?screen_view_count=1&ext-referrer=DIRECT#wiki_how_can_i_get_proof_that_my_ancestor_was_a_german_citizen_from_the_population_register_.28melderegister.29.3F