Gyula Alpári
Gyula Alpári (19 January 1882, Dunaföldvár – 17 July 1944, Sachsenhausen) was a Hungarian Communist politician and propagandist, as well as a journalist by profession. 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 Comintern’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. He was accused of being a "Trotskyist", but evaded the Stalinist repression as the political tension was growing in Germany with the rise of fascism. 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. Propaganda activities Alpari worked with Willi Münzenberg, chief of Comintern propaganda in Western Europe. Sacco and Vanzetti trial Alpari came to the U.S. in 1927 to