Expellees commemorated their lost Heimat while abandoning any intention to return

Evidence

Meanwhile, the right to the lost Heimat in the East encompassed two, often divergent, objectives: commemoration and the actual intention to return there. Most observers have collapsed these two very different approaches into the same meaning: By commemorating the old Heimat , expellees wanted to return. Once they are disentangled, it becomes clear that expellees continued to support their organizations and presses as a way to keep alive memory of the old Heimat , even though their interest in Heimkehr waned. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 513

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct evidence for the sacrifice/conviction project: professed border-revision conviction diverged from actual desire to return — commemoration continued while Heimkehr waned.
• XREF: connects to: Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328; 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 commitments to territorial revisionism — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1091 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. #qualifies (0.85) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1328
• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism #corroborates (0.85) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1091
• Elite revanchist propaganda failed to reverse expellees’ acceptance of loss #corroborates (0.80) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 756