Pan-German ideology originated in student bodies and spread outward into general politics

Evidence

It is a fact “that the student body does not at all simply mirror the general political constellation; on the contrary, strong Pan-German opinions have largely originated in the student body and thence found their way into general politics.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2400

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how intellectual movements seed politics bottom-up — the same mechanism later readings on colonial elites internalizing imperial ideology will describe. — connects to: German ordoliberalism originated by attacking the German Historical School — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 621