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    the SPD supported German involvement in World War I in 1915, Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartacus League which eventually became...
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    democracy, and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, which wanted to set up a council republic similar to the one...
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    Liebknecht proclaimed Germany a "Free Socialist Republic" from the Berlin Palace on 9 November 1918. On 11 November, together with Rosa Luxemburg and...
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    was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party...
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    Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, formerly the Bülowplatz, is a square in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. The square is dominated by the Volksbühne and by the Karl-Liebknecht-Haus...
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    the aftermath of the uprising, the Spartacist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered extrajudicially by the Freikorps. Into the spring...
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    with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, was arrested in Berlin's Wilmersdorf district and taken to the Eden Hotel. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were then...
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    relations with Soviet Russia. "Liebknecht an das Volk 9. November 1918" [Liebknecht to the People 9 November 1918]. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (in German). Retrieved...
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    protesters of the Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstrations (regular demonstrations in memory of the murdered socialists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg). On 19 February...
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    Around 170 people lost their lives, including KPD leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered extra-judicially by the Freikorps. In the...
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    Ernst Thälmann (film) (category Cultural depictions of Karl Liebknecht)
    Spartacists. Zinker, now a member of the Freikorps, murders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Thälmann hears of it and promises their sacrifice will not...
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    officially backed Liebknecht-Luxemburg Demonstration, the mass parade was held each year in January to honour Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two pioneers...
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    KPD Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Previously, Noske had personally ordered that Liebknecht's telephone line be monitored and Liebknecht's every movement...
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    retrospectively applied this rule to Radek. Within the SPD Anton Pannekoek and Karl Liebknecht opposed this move, as did others in the International such as Leon Trotsky...
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    the revolt and the extrajudicial murders of KPD leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by members of the Freikorps. The same year the German Army under...
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    were among others participation in the yearly May Day and Luxemburg-Liebknecht (LL) demonstrations, campaigning for election boycotts and anti-fascist organizing...
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    When the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was founded by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on New Year's Eve of 1918, they tried to integrate Müller and...
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    Italian Socialist Party, and the socialist faction led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Germany (later to become the Communist Party of Germany)...
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  • Solange Leben in mir ist (category Cultural depictions of Karl Liebknecht)
    war." Liebknecht goes to Jena to raise some youth supporters for a May 1 demonstration in Berlin. On the day of the demonstration, Liebknecht speaks...
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  • south-east): Memhardstraße / Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße – Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz – Schönhauser Allee (to Bundesstraße 96a) Karl-Liebknecht-Straße – intersection Mollstraße/Prenzlauer...
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    evident by 1916. Karl Liebknecht, a socialist and anti-war campaigner associated with the Spartacus League, had held a demonstration at Potsdamer Platz in...
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  • demonstration in Berlin on 1 May 1916, when Litten was not quite 13, the German Revolution of 1918–1919, and the arrest and murder of Karl Liebknecht...
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    "Liebknechtplatz" (after Karl Liebknecht). In 1947 it was renamed "Luxemburg-Platz" after Rosa Luxemburg (it has been called Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz since 1969). Passau...
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    prominent socialist opponent of the war in Europe. The left including Liebknecht and Luxemburg formed the International Group which criticized the war and the...
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  • periodicals and brochures, but also posters, leaflets, and stickers, and in demonstrations and public meetings; it became customary for roses to be given away...
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  • Kerensky Kéthly Kirk Lagos Lassalle Layton Lenin Lévesque Liebknecht (father) Liebknecht (son) Luxemburg MacDonald Mandela Marx Myrdal Nehru Palme Plekhanov...
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    Kerensky Kéthly Kirk Lagos Lassalle Layton Lenin Lévesque Liebknecht (father) Liebknecht (son) Luxemburg MacDonald Mandela Marx Morales Myrdal Nehru Palme Plekhanov...
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  • Spartakusbund — Spartacus League. Originally formed in 1914 by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, it joined the USPD in 1917. During the November Revolution...
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    supported the SPD, 88 the USPD and 10 the Spartacus League. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the Spartacus leaders, had not been elected to the Congress...
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    only German MP to oppose the vote on war credits was Karl Liebknecht, who with Rosa Luxemburg helped found the Spartacus League of anti-war socialists...
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