Expellee revisionism decayed internally through decades of reflection, not political pressure

Evidence

In the end, Willy Brandt was just as powerless to convince expellees to give up on Heimkehr as Herbert Czaja was to drive them on to reconquer the lost East. The real weakening of the expellee desire for return had to come from within. Over twenty-i ve years of rel ection, most expellees’ “right to the Heimat ” had come to refer to a Heimat that they knew only lived on in memory. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1404

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question of whether threat-based solidarity decays or manufactures a new enemy when the threat disappears — here it decayed into memory and mourning. — connects to: Elite revanchist propaganda failed to reverse expellees’ acceptance of loss — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 756; 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 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances #corroborates (0.85) — 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 #corroborates (0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 399
• Once expellees integrated, their protests lost power to influence party loyalties #corroborates (0.82) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 760
• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism #corroborates (0.80) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1091
• Expellees integrated into the SPD lost their group-based identity politics #expands (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 751