Freikorps
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Freikorps were German paramilitary militias formed in the aftermath of World War I and during the German Revolution of 1918–19. Freikorps units consisted primarily of demobilised soldiers, young men,
Freikorps paramilitaries in Berlin, 1919
1919 ad for Freikorps volunteers
Minister of the Reichswehr, Gustav Noske, visits the Freikorps Hülsen in Berlin in January 1919.
Provisional Freikorps armored vehicle in Berlin during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920
Rosa Luxemburg
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary. She was a leading theorist of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later co-founded the anti-war Spartacus
Freikorps
…the Freikorps to suppress the Marxist Spartacist uprising, culminating in the summary executions of revolutionary communist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on 15 January 1919. The Bavarian Soviet Republic was a short-lived and unrecognized socialist-communist state in Bavaria from 12 April – 3 May 1919…
Luxemburg, c. 1911
Luxemburg at about age 12, c. 1883
Leo Jogiches c. 1890
Luxemburg, c. 1893