Rob Bloom
Mirendorff
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« on: March 14, 2017, 06:18:50 PM » |
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In West Germany, these incidents did play a major role in politics until the 1980's. The displaced people from Silesia and Sudetenland formed powerful associations, with big influence in CDU and especially CSU, since most migrants finally settled in Bavaria.
In the beginning, they even had their own party, the BHE (Bund der Heimatvertriebenen und Entrechteten/Association of deported and disenfrachised people), which was temporarily part of Chancellor Adenauer's coalition and administration.
"Germany in the borders of 1937" was an important and undisputed claim of the CDU/CSU platform at least until the 1970's. Chancellor Brandt's efforts to settle the border argmuent with Poland and Russia, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize, where highly disputed. CDU/CSU fought against it tooth and nail because it meant giving up the homeland of the Silesians, Sudeten and East Prussians.
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