BOOK LAUNCH | Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard - Martyn Bond

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Join Martyn Bond for the in-person launch of his book, Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe. The event is part of the Historical Association - North London Branch Programme 2021-22.

Martyn Bond, former European civil servant and BBC foreign correspondent, is a distinguished senior fellow at Regent's University London and a senior fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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. 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. The Count's commitment to this cooperative ideal infuriated Adolf Hitler, who referred to him as a "cosmopolitan bastard" in Mein Kampf. Timely and captivating, Martyn Bond's biography offers an opportunity to explore a remarkable life and revisit the impetus and origins of a unified Europe.