French repatriates were a small minority while German expellees were one in five Germans

Evidence

Repatriates made up between two and three percent of the French population in the early 1960s, whereas the number of Germans from the former eastern provinces represented some 20 percent of the overall German population at the end of World War II. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1295

Categorization

• XREF: The reader is researching threat/grievance as a solidarity engine; the BHE chapter presumably sits alongside this. The proportional scale difference matters for why German expellees, but not repatriates, formed a mass political force. — connects to: Expellees comprised 16-18 percent of West German population. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 75; Over twelve million ethnic Germans were expelled from postwar Europe — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1530; German expellees outnumbered French Algerian repatriates twelvefold per capita — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 45

Broader Connections

• Over twelve million ethnic Germans were expelled from postwar Europe #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1530