Revanchist preaching drove congregants away while resignation retained them

Evidence

It is noteworthy, however, that pastors who retained a strongly revanchist stance tended to lose the support and interest of their congregations. Having organized a Pentecost gathering in 1948, Vikar Hahnel’s calls for ” Sendung ” (a “mission,” such as the “issuing forth” of the apostles) became very political. Songs at his gathering squarely blamed the Poles for the Heimat ‘s decline and demanded it back before it was too late, even if it meant expelling the Poles who had settled there. Former members of Hahnel’s Breslau Holy Cross congregation voted against this rhetoric with their feet. Roughly a hundred came in 1948. Only twenty came in 1949, and Hahnel was so strapped for i nancial support that they had to meet in his apartment (he pleaded with all subscribers of the 80 Josef Engelbert, St. — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 934

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core question about whether manufactured/enemy solidarity decays when correction or moderation is attempted — here the supply of revanchism shrank because the congregation of expellees themselves abandoned it. — connects to: Forced conversion can reanimate a faith that was quietly fading away; Proletarianization and modernization progressively displaced Black Christian resignation with angry consciousness. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1404

Broader Connections

• Proletarianization and modernization progressively displaced Black Christian resignation with angry consciousness. #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1404
• Forced conversion can reanimate a faith that was quietly fading away #contradicts (0.72)