Brenda says "Germany doesn't determine citizenship according to place of birth or residency but only blood." and Lt. Flynn says " really? still? you're sure? Brenda replies " yes." This is totally wrong info. Each year around 100.000 foreigners gets German passport. And before year 2000 they could have two passports, now they have to choose.
shareBut they are still "foreigners." It's not a question of what passport you hold. In the US, you must be a citizen to hold a US passport, but that's not always the case. There are countries that consider you a citizen only if you are of a certain race, but if you are a born there, will issue you a passport if you wish to travel.
Now, it was a little unfair to characterize Germany this way, because the only way to be born German is to have a German parent, and that is true whether you are born in Germany, or outside of it. But that is not the only way to become a German citizen. Also, unlike the US, merely being born inside Germany's borders does not make a person German. However, that is actually true of a lot of countries, and the US is unusual in granting citizenship to absolutely anyone born here, even if their parents were Swedish citizens on student visas, Canadian tourists here for the weekend, or Cubans here illegally.