Author: Rohan, Karl Anton, Prins [1898- 1975]
Title: Schicksalsstunde Europas : Erkenntnisse und Bekenntnisse, Wirklichkeiten und Möglichkeiten / von Karl Anton Prinz Rohan
Description: Graz, Leykam-Verlag, 1937. orig. cloth. 23x15cm, (4),431 pages. Some spotting and stains to page-edge. In Fraktur.. Frontispiece.. Some wear. Some soil to flyleaf. Good. ¶ ["Rohan... represented an elitist-conservative concept of the 'Occident', which he opposed to the Christian Democratic idea of a pan-Europe. At the international meetings of his cultural association, among others Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Paul Valéry, Max Beckmann and Carl Schmitt took part. Karl Anton Rohan and Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi were considered to be personally enemies; Rohan considered the Paneuropean idea to be constructed, hostile to tradition and rationalistic. Josef Redlich was one of the supporters of his cultural association. But Ignaz Seipel also felt a connection with Rohan's occidental ideology. During the 1930s, like Alois Hudal, he advocated rapprochement between Christianity and National Socialism. However, he was in favor of an independent National Socialist Austria. Nevertheless, after Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938, Rohan contributed to the confessional book of Austrian poets ( published by the Association of German Writers in Austria), which enthusiastically welcomed the annexation. Since May 1, 1938 he was a member of the NSDAP (No. 6.234.513) . However, since he was not ready to give up his idea of an independent Austria and a united Europe on a Catholic-aristocratic basis, he quickly fell into political sideline in the 'Third Reich'. In addition, in his book 'The Fateful Hour of Europe', he had warned of preparations for a new world war..." - translation from wikipedia].

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