Stateless persons could be claimed by multiple states while belonging to none.

Evidence

The American Friends Service Bulletin (General Relief Bulletin, March, 1943) prints the perplexed report of one of their field workers in Spain who had been confronted with the problem of “a man who was born in Berlin, Germany, but who is of Polish origin because of his Polish parents and who is therefore … Apatride, but is claiming Ukrainian nationality and has been claimed by the Russian government for repatriation and service in the Red Army.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2507

Categorization

• QUESTION: What does this fragmented nationality situation clarify about the modern nation-state’s attribution of identity, worth chasing in Arendt’s fuller argument?
• XREF: Directly illustrates the ‘imagined community’ breakdown where birth, parentage, and claim all point to different states.