Once expellees integrated, their protests lost power to influence party loyalties

Evidence

The party’s rejection of Ostpolitik had also cost it its liberal coalition partner, which otherwise had little in common with the Social Democrats. The fact that the CDU continued the social–liberal policy of Ostpolitik under Kohl’s new government in 1982 no longer did the party any harm. By this time the social and, above all, political integration of expellees had progressed to such an extent that party loyalties could no longer be influenced by the now rather anemic protests of expellee organizations. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 760

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expellee party support peaked around 1950 then decayed through the 1950s — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 503; Elite revanchist propaganda failed to reverse expellees’ acceptance of loss — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 756; Expellee revisionism decayed internally through decades of reflection, not political pressure — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1404 (+9 more)