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| | Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. |
 | | At the end of 1914, Liebknecht, together with Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches,,, Franz Mehring and Clara Zetkin formed the so-called Spartacist League (Spartakusbund); the league publicizied its views in a newspaper titled Spartakusbriefe ("Spartacus Letters") which was soon declared illegal. |
 | | Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were abducted by Freikorps soldiers, brought to the Eden Hotel in Berlin where they were tortured and interrogated for several hours before being executed and dumped into the canal on January 15, 1919. |
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