Expellees inverted Nazi-victim status to claim compensation.

Evidence

Travelers who had suffered under Polish occupation even attributed Nazi crimes to Poles in order to demand the return of the lost territories as compensation for the wrongs Poles had inl icted on Germans. … Using government ministers at the BMgF as an audience, she detailed how she had “traveled through these lands with open eyes and ears to raise a sole plea for help.” Anxious to downplay Nazi crimes that had motivated the Polish response after the war, she demanded to know if murder is still murder when committed by a Pole. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1254

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expellees transposed acknowledged Nazi crimes onto their Polish persecutors to deny German guilt — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 698; Ethnic German expellees faced discrimination from their own countrymen after arrival — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 363

Broader Connections

• Ethnic German expellees faced discrimination from their own countrymen after arrival #corroborates (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 363