Career
Hungary and Russia
Alpári participated as a leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1919. After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, he fled to Soviet Russia and became an official of the Communist International. Germany
In the 1920s and early 30s, Alpári was active in Germany, where he was editor in chief on the Communist International’s German-language periodical InPreKorr (Internationale Presse Korrespondenz).
Trotskyist
In the late 1920s, Alpári had a political clash with Béla Kun, the main leader of the Hungarian Communists.
France and death
When the Nazis took power in 1933, Alpári fled to France. After the Nazi invasion in 1940, Alpári was arrested by Gestapo in Paris and taken to the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, where he was shot in 1944.
Alpari worked with Willi Münzenberg, chief of Communist International propaganda in Western Europe. Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Alpari came to the United States. in 1927 to lead Communist efforts to propagandize the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
Whittaker Chambers
Several authors believe that Alpari was the high-level communist whom Whittaker Chambers describes in his 1952 memoir, Witness:
I did most of my reading about the Hungarian Revolution at my desk in the newspaper room of the New York Public Library.
One night, when I was absorbed in Bela Szanto, I suddenly became aware that a little man was standing beside medical He was short, dark, and dressed quietly with an air of extreme tidiness. His eyes were black, intelligent, friendly and fearless.
This chance meeting was of the utmost importance to medical
What my Hungarian comrade said to me, more impressively than any words he spoke, was that my vision of the Communists was not mistaken. He embodied lieutenant He was lieutenant
..I was not alone. Maria Schmidt writes, "According to some sources.
Gyula Alpari travelled to New York to take charge of the action there. We recall the mysterious Hungarian Communist, chambers "mentor".
lieutenant is not unlikely that the man was Gyula Alpari..".