I live in the USA because I was born with a US citizenship. Not because I was born here, but because my dad was, and as a US American he could pass on citizenship to his kids. I was born in Germany and spent the first 23 years of my live there before moving away, my family staying back in Germany.
But my dads parents were also Germans. Imprisoned by the Gestapo in order to get them to release my great uncles whereabouts (he was active in the resistance against the Nazis), they were released in just about time to make it out, before things got really bad. They caught a train and then a boat to arrive in NYC penniless and stateless. A law under Hitler took away their citizenship as Jews outside of Germany. Only after the war Under “Article 11” did they get their German citizenship back, and so did their son, my dad and this is why he went back to Germany and this is why I’m here today