Pastors’ own recognition of Heimat’s transformation pushed expellees toward Western integration.

Evidence

At the end of his rel ections, Fr. Hettwer mourned that “our Heimat is no longer the land that we hold in our memories, our Heimat no longer looks as it did when we had to leave it.” Integration in the West was the only option left to expellees, he concluded, but not at 33 Ibid. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 856

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Privation in exile intensified idealized retrospection on the lost Heimat. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 778; Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1328; Expellee leaders shifted from demanding return to integrating within a few years — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 933 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Exposure to the transformed Heimat eroded expellee support for territorial revision. #corroborates (0.85) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1328
• Expellees commemorated their lost Heimat while abandoning any intention to return #corroborates (0.85) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 513
• Expellee leaders shifted from demanding return to integrating within a few years #corroborates (0.80) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 933
• Clergy already spiritualized the Heimat’s loss by mid-1946 to console departing congregations. #corroborates (0.80) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 897
• News from the destroyed Heimat began expellees’ coping with loss #corroborates (0.75) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 709