Mainstream parties co-opted BHE leaders with ministries and funding, then steered their aims

Evidence

The CDU had many successful strategies for integrating BHE leaders. It offered positions as ministers, generous coalition deals with their party, and funding to steer their political aims. And it long fueled unrealistic expectations regarding the eastern territories to avoid conflict with expellee organizations. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 762

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete mechanism of grievance-channeling — integration purchased by patronage plus deliberate fueling of impossible expectations — that bears on how solidarity decays when the grievance is bought off rather than resolved. — connects to: Main parties competed for leadership over the expellee constituency for instrumental reasons. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 163; The BHE’s patronage-hunting reduced it to a right-wing splinter group — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 750; Mainstream parties countered the BHE threat by co-opting expellee demands — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 85