The Man Who Invented the Third Reich: The Life and Times of Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck - Hardcover

Lauryssens, Stan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750918667 ISBN 13: 9780750918664

Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come.

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About the Author

Stan Lauryssens is a Belgian writer, one-time journalist and fine art dealer. Since the 1970s he has pursued an interest in Hitler's Third Reich and in the years that have followed he has personally met and interviewed many of the key figures in the Nazi hierarchy (who

Reviews

Hitler may have been a "genius" as a rabble-rouser and demagogue, but his ideas on politics, class divisions, and race were strictly derivative; they were the product of the hot-house political atmosphere that permeated both Vienna and the Austro-Germany borderlands. A major contributor to that atmosphere was Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a morose intellectual who promoted extreme nationalism and virulent anti-Semitism as a poet and polemicist. Lauryssens, a Belgian author of five books on the Third Reich, writes in a melodramatic style, and he often engages in unwarranted speculation regarding both Moeller van den Bruck and his direct influence on Hitler. Still, he does succeed in conveying the intellectual ferment and underlying current of violence that characterized prewar Vienna. As for Moeller van den Bruck, he emerges here as a brilliant, tortured, and strangely sympathetic character unable to cope with the political demons he helped to unleash. Jay Freeman

Edition details

• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750918667
• ISBN 13: 9780750918664
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166