Mosse also discusses how the Volk particularly attracted teachers and professors in the education system because of it stimulated the intellectual and academic world to look back on their Germanic historic, cultural, and medieval mythical roots. From re-examining their history, the academic faculty pushed the idea of the Volk onto their students, provoking a younger, more radical audience to support the Volk. These students helped transform the Volk into a political movement in the universities, with a demand for German unity, supremacy, and statehood. Mosse argues how the academics came to view the Jews as the source of their problem; alien outsiders that lived in these urban industrial centers that infested the purity of the German
Mosse also discusses how the Volk particularly attracted teachers and professors in the education system because of it stimulated the intellectual and academic world to look back on their Germanic historic, cultural, and medieval mythical roots. From re-examining their history, the academic faculty pushed the idea of the Volk onto their students, provoking a younger, more radical audience to support the Volk. These students helped transform the Volk into a political movement in the universities, with a demand for German unity, supremacy, and statehood. Mosse argues how the academics came to view the Jews as the source of their problem; alien outsiders that lived in these urban industrial centers that infested the purity of the German