Nach dem neuen deutschen Gesetz müssen Männer für längere Auslandsaufenthalte eine militärische Genehmigung einholen

This law has been around for 4 months, and suddenly everyone’s freaking out about it.

There’s no conscription in Germany right now. The Bundeswehr isn’t set up to stop people from leaving the country and will grand every leave, and there are no penalties if you don’t officially deregister with them as a German citizen. You won’t end up in jail or get picked up at the border over it.

So the law is pretty harmless at least until there’s an actual war. And if that happens, we’re all screwed together anyway.

At the end of the day, we probably all need to come to terms with the idea that if war breaks out, men will be expected to fight.

I am german and i live in Luxemburg for 4 years. My kids to school here and i own a house. I will do exactly nothing.

The German law is also a bit of an … juristic thing.

They had the same rule for a very long time. It wasn’t applied in times of peace. This point changed.

There is no way to get denied. You can leave at any time. And there is no defined fine for not applying.

The whole permission thing is a legal point. A permission can be revoked. This would would require another change of the law to define a case for revoking. A pure notice based system cannot revoke something.

There is a huge number of Germans outside Germany that didn’t fill out the paperwork. They know about them, but they cannot share data between ministries without involving DSGVO.