ABSTRACT
The chapter analyzes how and why academic exchange was fostered in Nazi Germany by contrasting traditional foreign cultural policy approaches with a new form of völkisch “exchange,” which derived its objectives from racist ideology. The author argues that different modes of academic exchange reflected different concepts of the “New Europe.” In addition, the chapter explores why foreign students chose to study in Nazi Germany. While the propaganda of a “new European order” was successful in mobilizing students, students’ actual experiences in wartime Germany contradicted their original expectations.
