| Accession Number | A01690 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Angef, Photochemie |
| Place made | Germany: Berlin |
| Date made | March 1919 |
| Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Sparticist prisoners captured by Government troops being escorted through the streets of Berlin ...
Description
Sparticist prisoners captured by Government troops being escorted through the streets of Berlin during the revolution in March, 1919. The Spartacus League renamed itself the German Communist Party and called for a general strike of the workers in January 1919. A volunteer group of 3,000 former soldiers, called the Free Corps, was called in to restore order. They fought against the Red Front (Communist) soldiers in hand to hand combat on the streets of Berlin. The leaders of the Communists, Liebknecht and Luxemburg, were dragged from their hiding place and murdered in the Tiergarten park in the center of the city; Luxemburg's body was thrown into the Landwehr Canal. A monument to Luxemburg now stands in the Tiergarten.