Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances

Evidence

Thus, after the initial phases of creating parallel expellee or resettler policies between 1945 and 1950, there were three essential turning points. In the years 1952–3 GDR social policy was abandoned, while West German social policy was completely established. In the 1970s, a first generational change in societies was combined with a new FRG Foreign Policy toward East European countries, abandoning any serious ‘homeland policy’ and downsizing the political veto power of expellee organizations. Finally, in the years around 1989–91 the formal settlement of territorial border questions coincided with the end of Western burden sharing, transforming the remaining cultural subsidies more and more into a new historicizing approach of a ‘policy of remembrance’. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 403

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s core thesis — solidarity decayed with the removal of the territorial grievance and generational change, not primarily through ideological correction of revanchist belief. — connects to: Expellee party support peaked around 1950 then decayed through the 1950s — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 503; Expellee memory journeys systematically scrubbed out political and economic hardships. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 841; Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328 (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• 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
• Hostile enemy imagery in expellee politics faded as Cold War tensions eased. #exemplifies (0.82) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 916
• Expellees integrated into the SPD lost their group-based identity politics #corroborates (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 751
• Expellee organizations enforced an orthodox policy line by punishing political deviation #complicates (0.72) — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 105
• Electoral competition for expellee votes fossilized symbolic irredentism that no longer meant return #complicates (0.70) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 741