Rank-and-file expellee publications routinely diluted or ignored the official revanchist line

Evidence

It is essential to add, however, that even when publishers dominated the content on a Heimat paper’s cover page, smalltime editors from Silesia’s towns and villages managed the interior. Here (and in Heimat papers that remained under private control) a tight-knit communal feel arose, and content featured intimate reminiscences that were often oblivious to political demands or even questioned them. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 212

Categorization

• XREF: Lends documentary weight to the reader’s claim that group solidarity is sustained by identity/ritual attachment more than by manufactured threat. — connects to: Horkheimer censored explicit political language in Institute publications — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 865; Expellee leaders fabricated survey results to manufacture support for revisionism — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 598

Broader Connections

• Expellee leaders fabricated survey results to manufacture support for revisionism #expands (0.78) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 598
• Horkheimer censored explicit political language in Institute publications #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 865