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Fuchs claimed Hitler claimed he wasn't German


In this movie, Klaus Fuchs claimed to Oppie that he had been British since Hitler told Fuchs that Fuchs wasn't German.

Based on his reaction, Oppie seems to have interpreted this as meaning that Fuchs was a fellow Jew. As one of the early Nazi actions leading up to the Holocaust, Hitler revoked the citizenship of German Jews.

However Fuchs, although an enemy of Hitler and a supporter of German Jews, doesn't appear to have been himself Jewish. So his claim that Hitler claimed he wasn't German doesn't seem to be accurate. Fuchs never lost German citizenship and was never told by Hitler that he'd lost German citizenship.

Perhaps Fuchs was trying to distance himself from his German roots because he'd been previously falsely accused of being a German spy and had been held in wartime internment camps for a time. Ironically, although falsely accused of being a German spy, Fuchs was later accurately accused of being a Soviet spy, and spent time in prison as a result.

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Hitler actually wasn't German. He was Austrian.

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Yes, I'm aware that Hitler himself wasn't German, although he would probably never have admitted as such. Hitler, originally from Austria, did naturalize in Germany in 1932 or so, but the validity of the naturalization has been challenged posthumously.

The question from the movie, though, is whether Hitler ever claimed to Fuchs that Fuchs wasn't German. The specific exchange from the script was:

Oppie: How long have you been British?
Fuchs: Since Hitler told me I wasn't German.

I'm trying to understand what Fuchs (or Nolan) intended by this line, since Fuchs wasn't Jewish and I'm not aware of what the context would have been where Hitler told Fuchs that Fuchs wasn't German.

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He was a communist when he left germany. Hitler didn't aprove of them.
He had to become british to work on their atomic program.
https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/biographies/fuchs.html

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