Graf Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972) ~1930

The Kalergi Plan ( it, Piano Kalergi), sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy, is a

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conspiracy theory, which claims that Austrian-Japanese politician

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi (16 November 1894 – 27 July 1972) was an Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher and Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of ...

concocted a plot to mix

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with other races via immigration. The

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is most often associated with European groups and parties, but it has also spread to North American politics.

Origins

The conspiracy theory stems from a section of Kalergi's book ''Praktischer Idealismus'', in which he predicted that a mixed

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would arise: "The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals." Modern far-right individuals seek to draw relationships between contemporary European policy-making and this quote. Austrian

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writer Gerd Honsik wrote about the subject in his book ''Kalergi Plan'' (2005). The independent Italian newspaper '' Linkiesta'' investigated the conspiracy theory and described it as a hoax which is comparable to the fabricated anti-semitic document ''

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''.

Reception

The

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describes the Kalergi plan as a distinctly European way of pushing the

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on the continent, with

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quoting Coudenhove-Kalergi's writings out of context in order to assert that the

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's immigration policies were insidious plots that were hatched decades ago in order to destroy white people.

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, an anti-racism advocacy group, has described it as a racist conspiracy theory which alleges that Coudenhove-Kalergi intended to influence Europe's policies on immigration in order to create a "populace devoid of identity" which would then supposedly be ruled by a Jewish elite. In his 2018 novel ''

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'', author

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satirizes the concept with his conspiracy theorist character Peter Stopes. In 2019, the right-wing nonprofit organization

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posted a photograph on

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in which a person was holding a beach ball that featured text promoting this conspiracy theory. The tweet was deleted soon after.

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