Pastors actively discouraged hopes of physical return as doomed to disappointment.

Evidence

The view to the earthly Heimat and waiting and hoping for its renewal brings us the greatest and bitterest disappointment time and again. And if the earthly Heimat were to be given back to us, life there would be hard enough. A paradise will not come into existence there for us again in a dead land of horrors… . Through his resurrection, Jesus Christ has gone before us in order to prepare a place in his eternal Heimat , from which no one can be expelled and which no one can destroy. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 898