Expellee organizations crystallized anti-reunification-compromise principles during Cold War polarization.

Evidence

The SPD-led opposition accused Adenauer of betraying the cause of reunification while the government responded by portraying the opposition as dangerous idealists at best and closet communists at worst. … In this highly charged atmosphere, the expellee groups formulated a basic set of foreign policy principles which remained largely unchanged until the end of the Adenauer era in 1963 and even beyond. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 29

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the manufactured-enemy/solidarity question: the expellee platform hardened partly because party competition over the Communist threat polarized the issue space.
• XREF: connects to: Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82; Expellee organizations supported rigid indefinite continuation of Ostpolitik non-recognition policy. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 53; Expellee organizations enforced an orthodox policy line by punishing political deviation — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 105 (+5 more)

Related

• Expellee organizations supported rigid indefinite continuation of Ostpolitik non-recognition policy. (similarity 0.88)
• Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools (similarity 0.87)
• Western Allies first banned then weaponized expellee organizations against communism (similarity 0.87)
• Expellee organizations enforced an orthodox policy line by punishing political deviation (similarity 0.87)
• Adenauer weaponized expellee grievances to stall reunification and extract concessions (similarity 0.85)
• Expellee organizations sustained West German revanchism by reinforcing refusal to accept the postwar border (similarity 0.85)
• Adenauer supported expellee demands instrumentally to shore up his Western policy, not from conviction. (similarity 0.84)
• Electoral competition over expellee voters locked parties into rigid Cold War stances. (similarity 0.83)
• Expellee groups could veto policy options but not shape policy positively (similarity 0.83)
• Adenauer’s long tenure institutionalized expellee groups as de facto veto holders. (similarity 0.83)
• Adenauer backed the expellee cause mainly to preempt social unrest. (similarity 0.82)
• Expellee-organization opposition, not state-interest reasoning, drove Adenauer’s Ostpolitik reversals. (similarity 0.82)
• Adenauer avoided an Ostpolitik toward Poland chiefly out of fear of upsetting expellee leaders. (similarity 0.81)
• Adenauer publicly endorsed the expellees’ revisionist territorial claims. (similarity 0.81)
• Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Allied authorities created expellee organizations as anti-communist tools #expands (0.78) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 82