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    Germany: Berliners pay tribute to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht at annual Berlin rally01:35

    Germany: Berliners pay tribute to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht at annual Berlin rally

    Germany, Berlin
    Politics
    January 15, 2023 at 17:13 GMT +00:00 · Published

    Demonstrators held a rally in Berlin on Sunday to pay their respects on the occasion of the 104th anniversary of the murders of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg and communist politician Karl Liebknecht.

    Participants peacefully marched along Frankfurter Allee holding red flags and banners while chanting slogans until they reached Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery, where they laid down red carnations and wreaths by Luxemburg's and Liebknecht's graves.

    Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht were the founders of Germany's Communist Party. Both opposed WWI and were killed for their roles in the Spartacist uprising of 1919 by members of the far-right German Freikorps paramilitary militia.

    Since the creation of the German Democratic Republic, socialist and communist sympathisers have held an annual memorial march in honour of the communist and socialist figures.

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    Demonstrators held a rally in Berlin on Sunday to pay their respects on the occasion of the 104th anniversary of the murders of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg and communist politician Karl Liebknecht.

    Participants peacefully marched along Frankfurter Allee holding red flags and banners while chanting slogans until they reached Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery, where they laid down red carnations and wreaths by Luxemburg's and Liebknecht's graves.

    Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht were the founders of Germany's Communist Party. Both opposed WWI and were killed for their roles in the Spartacist uprising of 1919 by members of the far-right German Freikorps paramilitary militia.

    Since the creation of the German Democratic Republic, socialist and communist sympathisers have held an annual memorial march in honour of the communist and socialist figures.