The Man Who Invented the Third Reich Book

A prolific writer, historian, critic, translator and publisher, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was the quintessential Bohemian fin-de-si cle artist. He became politically active after the First World War and was soon considered to be the leader of the young conservative revolutionaries in Weimar Germany. Van den Bruck expressed his ideas for a German authoritarian state in his major work Das Dritte Reich (The Third Reich), first published in 1923. Adolf Hitler, whom he had met the same year, was profoundly influenced by these ideas and regarded himself as the activist who could implement them. When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, van den Bruck realised Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended in Das Dritte Reich and foresaw the horrors to come. Van den Bruck saw no way out but to commit suicide. This compelling biography of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck is the only work available on this enigmatic character, and provides a fascinating insight into the political and artistic life of Weimar Germany.Read More