Expellees comprised 16-18 percent of West German population.
Evidence
Given the fact that the expellees constituted roughly 16 percent of West Germany’s total population by 1950—and 18 percent a decade later—it was hardly surprising that the three main political parties paid close attention to their interests from an early hour. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 75
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1295
Related
- French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans (similarity 0.90)
- Expellee numbers grew by inheritance, expanding to nearly 9 million by 1961. (similarity 0.83)
- German expellees outnumbered French Algerian repatriates twelvefold per capita (similarity 0.83)
- Citizenship and economic boom eased postwar expellee integration in West Germany (similarity 0.81)
- Expellee travelers fixated on meeting the dwindling German minority. (similarity 0.80)
- Once expellees integrated, their protests lost power to influence party loyalties (similarity 0.80)
- Expellee party support peaked around 1950 then decayed through the 1950s (similarity 0.80)
- Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances (similarity 0.79)
- Expellees and repatriates were denied the migrant label by official discourse and scholarship (similarity 0.79)
- West German governments codified expellee homeland rights as preconditions. (similarity 0.79)
- Germany defined expellee status broadly while France narrowly restricted repatriate status (similarity 0.79)
- West Germany preserved expellee cultural identity where East Germany and France sought swift assimilation (similarity 0.78)
- Ethnic German expellees faced discrimination from their own countrymen after arrival (similarity 0.78)
- Expellees actively self-organized rather than passively receiving state-directed integration. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans
#qualifies(0.85) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1295