THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE THIRD REICH

Author: Stan Lauryssens

Publisher: The History Press

Year published: 2002

Pagination: 202pp illustrations

Condition: new in card covers

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Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was an artist who became politically active after The First World War in Weimar Germany. He expressed his ideas for a German authoritarian state in his work 'Das Dritte Reich' first published in 1923. Hitler was profoundly influenced and saw himself as the man of action who could implement these ideas. When van den Bruck later realised that Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he propounded, he committed suicide. This is the only known work on this enigmatic character.