The idea that after the national socialist takeover the german political propaganda strongly supported the naming of their land the Third Reich is a misperception. A circular letter that was issued by the Ministry of People's Education and Propaganda of the German Empire in july 1939 explicitly forbade the official use of Third Reich. In march 1942 the Ministry of People's Education and Propaganda issued a circular letter with provisions for the official name of the New Germany. In the preface of his work das dritte reich Arthur Moeller van den bruck emphasizes that the notion of the Third Empire is ideological, that rises above reality. According to him only with the elimination of its pseudo-values can Germany fulfill its mission of reviving Europe