Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools
Evidence
The importance of the political context was most obvious in the case of the Vertriebenenverbände and their connection to the Cold War context. Until 1948, the Western Allies prevented the expellees from founding political parties or groups, before discovering their organizations as useful tools of anti-communist mobilization. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Expellee organizations crystallized anti-reunification-compromise principles during Cold War polarization. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 29; Allied bans on political activity preserved Nazi economic and administrative influence; Anti-communist control mechanisms are recycled to target each successive racialized or dissident group — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 557 (+3 more)