Expellee organizations lost all influence once the territorial goal became moot

Evidence

During reunification of the FRG and the GDR, when the territorial issue really was at stake, Kohl and his chief negotiator Wolfgang Schäuble – then Federal Minister of the Interior – pragmatically refused to fight for theoretical East German territories lost many decades before. The Federation of Expellees had to realize that it had been marginalized even within the conservative part of German society. Shortly before, the communist SED regime had considerably relaxed towards West German integration policy. In July of 1989, a report of the GDR Ministry for State Security stated that the vast majority of 16 million expellees and expellee descendants did not consider themselves represented by the BdV because they did not search for their homeland in the East anymore, but regarded the FRG as their final homeland. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 384

Categorization

• XREF: The clearest instance in this chapter of the reader’s core hypothesis — grievance-sustained solidarity organization collapses when the grievance resolves, showing the solidarity was instrumentally manufactured around the unmet demand, not primordial. — connects to: Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328; Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 403; Expellee lobby influence waned only after their core grievances were institutionally resolved — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 399 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances #corroborates (0.90) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 403
• Once expellees integrated, their protests lost power to influence party loyalties #corroborates (0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 760
• Expellee lobby influence waned only after their core grievances were institutionally resolved #qualifies (0.82) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 399
• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism #expands (0.75) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1091