Evening star., 1944-07-07
j. ). Sedition Wines!
Recalled After TELLING
Of Bund Inner Circle
Schwinn likened Hitler
To Christ as Sovior,
Young Tells Jury
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.


Charles Joseph Young, Govern
n1ent witness at the sedition trial,
was called back to the stand for
cross-examination today after tell
ing the jury in District Court of an
inner circle within the German
American Bund which carried on
Nazi missions in this country.
Young, a naturalized German,
who said he joined the bund at the
request Of Naval Intelligence, quoted
q defendant, August Klapprott. for
ner deputy national leader of the
bund, as saying to a select group of
Los Angeles bundists in 1s4l:
1T is not necessary to take all
bund members in your confidence
The fewer you conflde in, the less
chance there is of leak"
The witness added: "Klapprott
explained that on one occasion a
man wormed his way into the inner
circle and then gave information to
a Jewish organization. Klapprott
said, I'VE kicked him out and the
leak stopped
Young said an Army top sergeant
IN uniform was among spectators
at celebration of Hitler,s birthday
in Los Angeles in 1899 at which the
defendant, Herman Max Schwinn,
Western "gauleiter" of the organ
ization, "likened Adolf Hitler to
Jesus Christ" The witness said:
"Schwinn told us the time would
come when Hitler's birthday would
be celebrated on an equal basis with
Christ's, because Hitler, too, was
savior OF the human race"
Pamphlet Attacks Roosevelt.
Young identified a reprint of an
article titled, "Roosevelts Jewish
Ancestry" which he said the Aryan
Bookstore, bund publication outlet
sold In Los Angeles. This article
purported to trace the Presidents
ancestry back to Dutch Jews.
The witness said Schwinn told the
Bund unit. with reference to a
project for which volunteers had
been called: Il don't care whether
you like 1t or not, you made pledge
signing away your right to act of
your own accord. You accepted the
leadership principle, and you are
to take orders from me-"
Young, who said his name orig
inany was Yung, but he changed
1t with legal authority, explained
under cross-examination. that he
was reluctant to investigate the
Bund. Il didn't want to stick my
neck out he said. Il was born in
Germany"
But Capt. Zacharias, identified
as head of Naval Intelligence in
Southern California, prevailed on
him, the witness said, and he made
his reports to the Navy, with copies
going to the FBI, through Joseph
Roos, of Los Angeles, whom the wit
ness said he knew only as head of
the Newsfeel Research Service.
Refuses to List Other Probes.
Asked by Klapprott's attorney
Charles E, Morganston, what other
investigations he had made for
Naval Intelligence. the witness said
a number, but refused to 90 into
them, because some ARE still 60
Ing on" Mr.. Morganston insisted
that Young explain these assign
ments, but Chief Prosecutor o. John
Rogge objected on the ground that
they had nothing to do with the
sedition case. Chief Justice Edward
c. Eicher upheld the witness.
When the defense attorney want
ed to know why Naval Intelligence
had picked him to investigate the
bund, Young said: Because 1 had
been working with them in uncover
ing Communistic activities in the
schools"
You never heard Communism up
held at the bund?' Mr. Morganston
suggested
Il did, once" said the witness. He
said Hans Diebel. defendant. had
discussed Hitler's alliance with Rus
sia, saying: Il really don't know
what to make of this, but if Hitler
has seen fit to make an alliance
with Russia, he knows what he's
doing. After ALL there's not much
difference between Hitler and Stain
since Stain purged his government
Of the Jews"
The witness said at present he was
engaged in civilian defense work in