Minority persecution by Poles drove Germans toward Nazi radicalism.

Evidence

Persecution also prompted a search for outside help in the international community and Germany: some Germans in Polish Silesia sent their grievances to the League of Nations, while many eventually became avid supporters of the Nazi movement. Signs of German enthusiasm for Hitler became a self-fuli lling prophecy for many Poles, who had long presumed that the German minority posed a security threat, and they responded by burning German newspapers, boycotting German shops, attacking Germans, and scrawling the word Jew on German businesses. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 331

Categorization

• XREF: Captures a feedback loop — victimhood narratives drive radicalization that provokes further persecution — relevant to the reader’s question of what happens when correction is attempted against a threat-hardened belief. — connects to: Religious minority status compounded the government’s suspicion of Germans; Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide; German unilateral guilt narratives ignored Poles’ own comparable displacement and suffering — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 669

Broader Connections

• Antisemitism acted as a catalyst for Nazi rule, world war, and genocide #expands (0.78)
• Religious minority status compounded the government’s suspicion of Germans #corroborates (0.75)
• German unilateral guilt narratives ignored Poles’ own comparable displacement and suffering #complicates (0.72) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 669