IN MEMORIAM - 90 YEARS AGO TODAY
THE MURDER OF ROSA LUXEMBURG AND KARL LIEBKNECHT
On January 15, 1919 - 90 years ago today - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were arrested by Berlin Freicorps troops, interrogated and tortured in their headquarters in the Hotel Eden, across the street from the "Elephant Gate" to the Berlin Zoo, drug across the street into the Tiergarten Park and murdered, Liebknecht with three extremely shortrange shots, and thrown into the canal there.
They were both committed to human rights, social welfare, and freedom for all, extremely internationalist, and were deemed a clear threat to the ultranationalistic elements rising to become the Nazi murderers of Europe. Their murder was the beginning of the downfall of the first democracy in Germany. Their memory later often misused by the GDR's SED central party, Rosa Luxemburg's slogan - "Freedom is always the freedom of someone with a different opinion" - was long forbidden, and its reappearance at demonstrations in 1988/89 marked the beginning of the end of the GDR and the people's rejection of limitations on their rights.
Die Ermordung von Rosa Luxemburg und Karl Liebknecht
Am 15. Januar 1919 - vor genau 90 Jahren - Freikorpssoldaten der Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division verschleppten Rosa Luxemburg und Karl Liebknecht in das Hauptquartier des Freikorps im Hotel Eden in Berlin, wo sie sie verhörten und schwer mißhandelten. Dann erschossen sie Liebknecht im Tiergarten mit drei Schüssen aus nächster Nähe, ermordete Luxemburg ebenfalls und warfen Leiche in den Landwehrkanal.
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