Spartacist Revolution
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 11-04-15 15:08
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- Spartacist Revolution
- January 1919, Spartacist members staged an attempted uprising in Berlin.
- 5th Jan 1919, Spartacists captured the HQ of the government newspapers and telegraph bureau.
- No other buildings taken over.
- Uprising was very badly prepared.
- 15th Jan 1919, the Freikorps crushed the uprising.
- 10th Jan 1919, they took over the Spartacist HQ.
- 100 Spartacists killed, only 13 Freikorps dead.
- Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered.
- No communist leaders or supporters.
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