Harry A. Jung
Harry Augustus Jung (b. 16 July 1884 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; d. 28 November 1954 ibidem) was a German American anti-communist who founded the Chicago based American Vigilant Intelligence Federation in 1927 in an attempt to track radicalism among labor union members. After three decades of monitoring radicals and their organizations in America it has been said his files exceeded one million names.[1]
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Life
Jung was instrumental in being one of the first to distribute The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in America. Jung obtained the Protocols from three White Russian expatriates who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War with the Red Guards. One of the White Russians was Peter Afansieff who arrived in San Francisco, California in 1922. He and two other White Russians worked on an English translation of the Protocols in Jung’s office.
Jung was a friend of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick, who allowed Jung to have his offices in the paper’s Tribune Tower. He was the former editor of the Chicago based paper The American Gentile. Jung was also president of the National Patriotic League.[2]
Family
Harry was the son of Germans Albrecht Jung and his wife Marie, née Straube. On 14 September 1921 in Cook County, Illinois, Jung married his fiancée Elsie Plachto, German American bookkeeper and daughter of German-born parents Carl and Ida Plachto.
Pamphlets
- Halt, Gentile! and Salute the Jew (1930)
- Questions and Answers (nineteen questions about the Jews, 1934)
- Communism and the Negro (1935)
- The Man Behind the Men Behind the President (1936) co-author E. N. Sanctuary (Felix Frankfurter and FDR)
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References
- ↑ White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, By Allan J. Lichtman, page 18
- ↑ Partners in Plunder, the Cost of Business, page 228
