Postwar welfare expansion served to pacify potentially rebellious displaced groups.

Evidence

The integration programs set up by the West German and French states to provide the expellees and repatriates with labor and housing, and partly to compensate for their financial losses, were an important driving force behind this development. While the Equalization of Burdens Act (Lastenausgleichsgesetz) induced payments to the amount of DM145.3 billion to the expellees between 1952 and 2001, the French state spent FF26 billion for the integration of the repatriates (1962–70), and another FF28.7 billion for their compensation (1970–81). Both cases show that the expansion of social expenditures was also a reaction to the consequences of war and a means to pacify potentially dangerous or rebellious groups. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 39

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’: state-outlay-as-pacification is a secular analogue to how stratified elites buy off potential rebellion — the BHE/protest thread runs parallel.
• XREF: connects to: The welfare state grew out of military appeasement efforts; Postwar hegemony had to be rebuilt around masses newly stirred into chaotic movement. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 876; Families and neighborhoods were promoted to replace a dismantled welfare state — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 99 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The welfare state grew out of military appeasement efforts #corroborates (0.95)
• Postwar hegemony had to be rebuilt around masses newly stirred into chaotic movement. #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 876
• Families and neighborhoods were promoted to replace a dismantled welfare state #contradicts (0.80) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 99
• Postwar labor unrest aimed at revolution, not just wages. #complicates (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 375
• Welfare bureaucracies materially advanced historically excluded groups before 1980 #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1740
• Postwar reconstruction committees voiced working-class demands for communal living and cooperative trade. #exemplifies (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 295