A Hundred Years Since the Murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht
On this day [15 January] exactly a century ago Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were brutally murdered in cold blood by Freikorps troops under the command of the Social Democratic Party. It decapitated the leadership of the young German Communist Party which then oscillated between putschism and opportunism for the rest of its existence. The consequences were that the world revolution, which the revolutionaries in Russia had counted on, did not take place.
A Hundred Years On: Lessons of the German Revolution
9 November is an auspicious date in the German historical calendar. 80 years ago this was the anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) when synagogues were burned and 10,000 Jewish males were marched to concentration camps. It was the first step on the road to the genocide of millions. 28 years ago it was the day that the GDR authorities announced the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. However, a century ago it was also the date when the Kaiser announced his abdication in the face of a workers’ revolution which had begun with mutinies in Kiel before spreading across Germany.
Life in the century's midnight
Opposition and resistance in Nazi Germany
Beating the fascists?: The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933 - Eve Rosenhaft
The last words of Eugen Leviné
Eugen Leviné (1883 – 1919) was one of the leaders of the short-lived Bavarian Council Republic and a member of the Communist Party of Germany. Along with hundreds of other workers, communists, socialists and anarchists, he was arrested following the attack on Munich by the German Army and the Freikorps, and later executed. In June 1919, while on trial for high treason, Leviné made his last speech.
National Bolshevism in Weimar Germany: alliance of political extremes against democracy - Abraham Ascher & Guenter Lewy
An article by Abraham Ascher and Guenter Lewy about the development of 'national bolshevism' in Germany between the World Wars.
Left-wing splinter parties in the Weimar Republic
A 1974 dissertation on various left-wing radical groups in Weimar Republic era Germany.
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