Native Silesians fled their Heimat as Polonization made remaining rightsless

Evidence

How could their “right to the Heimat ” be satisi ed if, by remaining in the Heimat , they lived without rights? Softened borders amid the mid-1950s thaw allowed almost the entire native population of southern East Prussia to migrate to the Reich , and the concentration in Upper Silesia diminished with each year. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 634

Categorization

• XREF: Shows the living population voted with its feet against the very Heimat the expellee lobby claimed to defend — direct evidence for rhetoric-practice divergence. — connects to: Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328; Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1091; Memory activists resisted every tangible sign of the Heimat’s Polish present — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 959

Broader Connections

• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. #complicates (0.75) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1328
• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded commitments to territorial revisionism #complicates (0.75) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1091