Memory activists resisted every tangible sign of the Heimat’s Polish present

Evidence

At the same time, the cruel reality of transformation stimulated a pitiful and desperate need to cringe, look away, and protest the inevitable fading of what he had known. In 1958, he protested that advertisements for “travel in Poland” were misleading, because travel in Silesia, East Prussia, or Pomerania did not involve Poland . 98 He decried Warsaw’s production of Polish postage stamps for “German” cities and yearned to preserve pristine memories of landmarks such as the palace of the counts of Dohna. 99 By 1968, he despaired that expellees themselves, the keepers of the dissipating Heimat of memory , were becoming West Germans. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 959

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1091; Native Silesians fled their Heimat as Polonization made remaining rightsless — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 634; Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. #contradicts (0.85) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1328
• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism #expands (0.80) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1091
• Native Silesians fled their Heimat as Polonization made remaining rightsless #qualifies (0.70) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 634