Communist Party of Germany
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The Communist Party of Germany was a major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, an underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and a minor party in West Germany during the postwar period until it was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1956.
Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, the KPD's headquarters from 1926 to 1933. The Antifaschistische Aktion (abbr. "Antifa") logo can be seen prominently displayed on the front of the building.
KPD in Essen, 1925
Reichswehr soldiers marching toward the federal parliament in Dresden, Saxony, to depose the state government led by a KPD-SPD coalition.
KPD election poster, 1932. The caption at the bottom reads: "An end to this system!"
Leo Jogiches
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Leon "Leo" Jogiches, also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Polish-Jewish Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany.
Jogiches as a young man, circa 1880s
The domineering "father of Russian Marxism" Georgy Plekhanov quickly became a lasting enemy of the young Jogiches
Jogiches was the editor of the illegal Spartacus newsletter, launched in September 1916, from which the underground Spartakusbund took its name