in 1932. Influence on Nazism In his 1918 book Das Recht der jungen Völker ("The Right Of Young Nations"), Moeller van den Bruck presents a version of the Sonderweg theory in which he developed the theme of Russia as representing communist civilization and the United States representing capitalist civilization, both of which are rejected. 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. He had a major influence on the Jungkonservativen (Young Conservatives) in their opposition to the Weimar Republic. He may have also supplied the Nazis with some of the concepts underpinning their movement, but upon meeting Hitler in 1922, Bruck rejected him for his "proletarian primitiveness". The Nazis still made use of his ideas where they could, including appropriating the title of his 1923 book Das Dritte Reich (meaning "The Third Reich") as a political slogan and the Germanic Übermensch idea. Works Die moderne Literatur in Gruppen und Einzeldarstellungen (1900) Das Variété: Eine Kulturdramaturgie (1900) Die Deutschen: Unsere Menschheitsgeschichte (1904) Zeitgenossen (1905) Die italienische Schönheit (1913) Der preußische Stil (1915) Das Recht der jungen Völker (1918) Das Dritte Reich (1923) See also The Man Who Invented the Third Reich The Völkisch Ideology and the Roots of Nazism References Sources Sebastian Maaß, Kämpfer um ein drittes Reich. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck und sein Kreis. Regin-Verlag, Kiel, 2010. Stan Lauryssens, The Man Who Invented the Third Reich: The Life and Times of Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck. Sutton Publishing, NY, 2003. . Gabor Hamza, The Idea of the “Third Reich” in the German Legal, Philosophical and Political Thinking in the 20th Century. Diritto e cultura 11 (2001) 127–138. Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of Germanic Ideology, UCP, Berkeley, 1974. . Further reading Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (2005). Political Ideals. Lanham, MD.: University Press of America. Rhodes, James M. (1970). "Dionysian and Promethean," The Modern Age, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 174–189. External links Works by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, at Hathi Trust Germany's Third Empire Complete English translation of "Das Dritte Reich" at archive.org 1876 births 1925 suicides People from Solingen 20th-century German historians German Army personnel of World War I People from the Rhine Province People of