LEADER 04653oam 2200505 450 001 9910813473803321 005 20210629195107.0 010 $a0-2280-0702-X 010 $a0-2280-0701-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780228007012 035 $a(CKB)4100000011744171 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6465875 035 $a(DE-B1597)657448 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780228007012 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011744171 100 $a20210629d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHitler's cosmopolitan bastard $eCount Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his vision of Europe /$fMartyn Bond 210 1$aMontreal, Quebec :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 433 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-2280-0545-0 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tHitler?s ?Cosmopolitan Bastard? Why This Title? -- $tIntroduction -- $tEurope an Father, as i an Mother -- $tSiblings, School, Love, And Marriage -- $tThinking in Continents, not Countries -- $tEurope Answers his Question -- $tBetween Hitler and Mussolini -- $tPacifist and Freemason -- $tPan-Europa: Utopia or Reality? -- $tTaking Europe to the Capitals -- $tNew Friends, New Enemies -- $tEuropean Patriots All -- $tTriumph in France -- $tDefeat in Germany -- $tLast Stand on the old Continent -- $tEscape From Europe -- $tBringing America Onside -- $tThe United States of Europe? -- $tPushing Parliaments Towards Power -- $tAn Open Conspiracy -- $tBehind Churchill -- $tBringing Germany in from the cold -- $tMoney Matters -- $tThe British Dilemma -- $t?mon cher ami, Mon Président? -- $tEurope?s Father, Europe?s Grandfather -- $tReaping Rewards in the Twilight Years -- $tA Patron Saint for Europe -- $tPostscript -- $tThe Coudenhove-Kalergi Family -- $tNotes -- $tSources and Further Reading -- $tIndex 330 $a"In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. His political congresses in Vienna, Berlin, and Basel attracted thousands from the intelligentsia and the cultural elite, including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Sigmund Freud, who wanted a United States of Europe brought together by consent. The Count's commitment to this cooperative ideal infuriated Hitler, who referred to him as a "cosmopolitan bastard" in Mein Kampf. Communists and nationalists, xenophobes and populists alike hated the Count and his political mission. When the Nazis annexed Austria, the Count and his wife, the famous actress Ida Roland, narrowly escaped the Gestapo. He fled to the United States, where he helped shape American policy for postwar Europe. Coudenhove-Kalergi's profile was such that he served as the basis for the fictional resistance hero Victor Laszlo in the film Casablanca. A brilliant networker, the Count guided many European leaders, notably advising Winston Churchill before his 1946 Zu?rich speech on Europe. A friend to both Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Charles de Gaulle, Coudenhove-Kalergi was personally invited to the High Mass in Rheims Cathedral in 1961 to celebrate Franco-German reconciliation. A provocative visionary for Europe, Coudenhove-Kalergi thought and acted in terms of continents, not countries. For the Count, the United States of Europe was the answer to the challenges of communist Russia and capitalist America. Indeed, he launched his Pan-European Union thirty years before Jean Monnet set up the European Coal and Steel Community, the precursor to the European Union. Timely and capitivating, Martyn Bond's biography offers an opportunity to explore a remarkable life and revisit the impetus and origins of a unified Europe."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aEuropean federation 606 $aInternationalists$zAustria$vBiography 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political$2bisacsh 607 $aEurope$xPolitics and government$y1918-1945 607 $aEurope$xHistory$y1918-1945 615 0$aEuropean federation. 615 0$aInternationalists 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. 676 $a341.10924 700 $aBond$b Martyn$0617149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813473803321 996 $aHitler's cosmopolitan bastard$94075821 997 $aUNINA