Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe Bond Martyn
Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe Bond Martyn In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi…
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Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe Bond Martyn
In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. The Count's commitment to this cooperative ideal infuriated Hitler, who referred to him as a cosmopolitan bastard in Mein Kampf. His political congresses in Vienna, Berlin, and Basel attracted thousands from the intelligentsia and the cultural elite, including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Sigmund Freud, who wanted a United States of Europe brought together by consent.
When the Nazis annexed Austria, the Count and his wife, the famous actress Ida Roland, narrowly escaped the Gestapo. Communists and nationalists, xenophobes and populists alike hated the Count and his political mission. He fled to the United States, where he helped shape
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