Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard – Martyn Bond

Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi was an Austro-Japanese statesman who promoted plans for a peacefully united and democratic Europe more than a hundred years ago – and openly opposed Hitler’s nightmare of Aryan domination. With his famous actress wife, Ida Roland, he lived in Vienna and in Switzerland and left his mark on politics from Scandinavia to Sicily, from the Atlantic to the borders of Russia.

In exile in New York during WW II he taught America to think of Europe as a continent rather than individual countries, and after 1945 worked politically with both Churchill and de Gaulle. He and his wife were the first European patriots, paving the way for the modern European Union.

Come and find out more about this fascinating man.

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