Government subsidies bought influence over the expellee organizations.
Evidence
Although the government’s motives were not primarily altruistic—a 1952 Foreign Office memo saw the main goal of this largesse in engendering a situation of financial dependence that would facilitate “the exertion of influence” on the expellee groups—such subsidies clearly enhanced the expellee movement’s domestic power base. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 94
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to patronage dynamics the reader knows from state-church or state-corporation financing debates — buying loyalty while inadvertently funding the opposition. — connects to: The nonprofit model turned membership advocacy groups into advocates serving donor interests. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 143
- DEEPTHINKING: A paradox central to the reader’s project: the state used subsidies to restraint-buy an organization whose manufactured grievance would later constrain the state’s Ostpolitik.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 94