German governments avoided formal expellee commemoration to steer clear of Weimar-style revisionism.

Evidence

The government’s long-running reluctance to formalize commemorative recognition can be explained by the obvious similarity to anti-Versailles revisionism during the Weimar period. Indeed, bringing the ‘Day of the Homeland’ (Tag der Heimat) into the rank of a public holiday gives the organizations’ anti-Potsdam revisionism the role of an official statement of German politics against the Allied Powers of World War II. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 918

Categorization

• XREF: Government caution toward commemorative grievance because of precedent resembles the reader’s theme of professions of solidarity diverging from what elites actually risk.