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Germany is held up as the model between the two extremes. In the same book, Moeller van den Bruck advocated an expressly anti-Western and anti-imperialist philosophy of the state (Staatstheorie), which attempted to bridge the gap between nationalism and concepts of social justice.
The German nationalist wants to preserve Germany not merely because she is Germany, which might easily mean simply to preserve the past. He wants to preserve Germany as a country arising out of the revolutionary upheavals and changes of a new age.
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck was a German cultural critic whose book Das Dritte Reich (1923; “The Third Empire,” or “Reich”) provided Nazi Germany with its dramatic name. Moeller left Germany after the turn of the century (to avoid military service) and lived in France, Italy, and Scandinavia.
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According to van den Bruck, "Our Second Reich was a Little-German Reich which we must consider only as a stepping stone on our path to a Greater German Reich". Van den Bruck called for the Weimar Republic to be replaced through a new revolution from the right.
- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
- 1923
Das Dritte Reich,1 and its author, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, was a German intellectual, then in his forties, who had a theory purporting to explain Germany's downfall as well as a vision of her recovery and return to a leading position in the world. One may well be uncertain as to whether Moeller, had he lived,
Germany's Third Empire. Written in 1923, when Germany was in the throes of revolutionary demands from both the Left and the Right, Moeller van den Bruck envisioned a Germany that was...
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In 1907, he returned to Germany, and in 1914, he enlisted in the army at the start of World War I. Soon, he joined the press office of the Foreign Ministry and was attached to the foreign affairs section of the German Supreme Army Command .
