inner emigration

English

Etymology

Calque of German innere Emigration, popularized by German writer Frank Thiess in his response to Thomas Mann's BBC broadcast, defending the choice of some German intellectuals to remain in Nazi Germany despite being opposed to Nazism.

Noun

inner emigration (uncountable)

  1. The retreat to one's private life in the face of an oppressive state, instead of overt opposition or emigration to another country.
    • 2023 April 28, Frederick Studemann, “Katja Hoyer: we need to hear ‘the whole story’ about East Germany”, in Financial Times‎[1], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC:
      Many Easterners went into so-called “inner emigration”, withdrawing from a system whose ideological impulse had long faded.
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