West German governments codified expellee homeland rights as preconditions.
Evidence
The expellees’ rights to their homelands and to self-determination also found expression in numerous statements, such as the 28 June 1956 government declaration, which elevated the two concepts into “indispensable preconditions” of any solution of the expellee problem. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 96
Categorization
- XREF: This absolute policy language parallels the way William of Normandy’s irredentism and similar ‘no compromise’ positional bargaining later had to be abandoned when material interests shifted. — connects to: Expellee leaders framed the right to homeland as a God-given right — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 46; Expellee rhetoric of rights and Europe disguised irredentist territorial claims. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 67; West German expellee policy was effectively modernizing despite restorative rhetoric — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 394
Related
- Expellee leaders framed the right to homeland as a God-given right (similarity 0.86)
- West German expellee policy was effectively modernizing despite restorative rhetoric (similarity 0.85)
- All three major West German parties competed in declaring the expellee cause sacrosanct. (similarity 0.85)
- Expellee rhetoric of rights and Europe disguised irredentist territorial claims. (similarity 0.81)
- West Germany preserved expellee cultural identity where East Germany and France sought swift assimilation (similarity 0.80)
- Expellee leaders weaponized rights rhetoric to mask annexationist aims toward the East. (similarity 0.80)
- Unrealistic irredentist goals alienated expellee members and marginalized their organizations (similarity 0.80)
- Expellee elites framed their lost-homeland cause as pan-European unification that would erase borders. (similarity 0.80)
- Return-homeland promises to expellees sapped their will to integrate economically (similarity 0.79)
- Irredentist homeland claims paradoxically sped expellee integration (similarity 0.79)
- Expellees comprised 16-18 percent of West German population. (similarity 0.79)
- Expellee political power eroded once generational change and border settlement removed grievances (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Expellee rhetoric of rights and Europe disguised irredentist territorial claims.
#complicates(0.82) — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 67 - West German expellee policy was effectively modernizing despite restorative rhetoric
#qualifies(0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 394