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41st year  -  N° 9                 Friday, 9 January 2026         Antwerpen		
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Wednesday 15th of January 1919
107 years, 11 months and 25 days ago




Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back by members of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision 43-year-old Otto Runge, 30-year-old Kurt Vogel and 25-year-old Hermann Souchon at the age of 48 in Tiergarten, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.


Official declarations said Liebknecht had been shot in an attempt to escape.