Thousands of students and scholars were travelling for professional reasons between Germany and Southern/Southeastern Europe¹ during the Nazi period. This chapter will examine how and why semi-private German institutions, with the support of the Nazi government, were eagerly promoting this academic mobility, and why students and scholars from Germany as well as from Southern and Southeastern Europe participated in the academic exchange. By doing so, it will show that student and scholar mobility across countries was not at odds with National Socialist ideology, but, on the contrary, lay at the heart of the National Socialist conception of foreign relations with Southern and Southeastern Europe. German officials wanted to integrate Southern and Southeastern Europe into a German-led "New European Order" based on völkisch principles. Academic and cultural relations were regarded as crucial for the success of this agenda, and the existing relations stabilized those parts of the "New European Order" which were already in place.