LECTURE | Martyn Bond- Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

Join Martyn Bond for a discussion of the extraordinary life of Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi with Associate Fellow of Chatham House, Quentin Peel. They will be joined by Claudia Hamill, who researched and edited the first English biography of this passionate European.

This is an in-person event:  

London - Hatchards - Piccadilly
187 Piccadilly
London
W1J 9LE
United Kingdom

To register: The Passionate European, with Martyn Bond 

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.