The denationalization decrees of the 1930s empowered the minister of the interior to cancel naturalization granted since the end of World War I and provided that all German citizens residing outside the Reich could be deprived of their citizenship. The ultimate impact of this decree was felt in 1941, when the Reich Citizenship Law was amended to provide that a Jew “who takes up residence abroad“ was no longer a Reich national and that this person's property was to be confiscated by the state. As soon as the Gestapo transported Jews beyond the German border, regardless of their unwillingness to go, they lost all rights as citizens. No government was concerned for their fate, and thus the Nazis had eliminated all legal impediments to carrying out the final solution