Expellee travelers fixated on meeting the dwindling German minority.

Evidence

In contrast to their interaction with the new Polish inhabitants (which, as will be shown, was not usually intended from the outset), travelers had an obsessive desire to meet Germans. Already in 1952, Revue asserted that millions of expellees wanted to know how “the 300,000 German brothers and sisters live behind the Oder-Neisse border, who are today prisoners in their own Heimat .” — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1260