National revanchism largely failed to mobilize millions of displaced Germans

Evidence

In light of this survey of Silesia’s history, especially the cycle of racial violence throughout the i rst half of the twentieth century, how is it possible that millions of expellees – about one-i fth of the West German population – did not rise up to demand their immediate return to the East, and so destabilize the new Republic and its eastern neighbors? Why were Herrmann’s disturbances at Dachau an exception rather than the rule? How is it that Silesia’s history has steadily returned to earlier patterns of peace and tolerance? — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 412

Categorization

• XREF: The whole chapter states the puzzle the reader’s research addresses head-on: a manufactured/threat-driven solidarity movement (expellee revanchism) turned out to be hollow — actual expellees did not share their leadership’s manufactured enemy. Core reference for the solidarity-decay question. — connects to: Decades of ideological re-education failed to erase Eastern-border revisionism in East Germans — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 388

Broader Connections

• Decades of ideological re-education failed to erase Eastern-border revisionism in East Germans #corroborates (0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 388