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Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed Germany's leading political leaders

105
years ago

15 January 1919,

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed the revolutionary German communist leaders.

Taking the Russian revolution as a model, the German Government took advantage of the anti-Communist army and militias Freikorp to suppress the Spartanchist uprising begun a few days earlier.

Once detected, they were killed on their way to jail and dumped their bodies into the river.

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