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...undoubtedly the more important for Russian purposes) was the National Committee of Free Germany. It consisted of German Communists and fellow travelers, most of whom were refugees from Hitler's Germany. Most important among them was the German Communist and ex-Reichstag deputy Wilhelm Pieck, who with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had organized Germany's 1919 Spartacus revolution (TIME...
Lenin's Problem. It was barely 26 years since Lenin faced the knotty question : would it be necessary to sacrifice the Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...
...where he sprinkled gold dust on the signature of his abdication in 1918, he was reduced to eating the bitter bread of exile in the curtailed magnificence of House Doorn. But his heart was still in Potsdam. Raged his wife, sickly Kaiserin Augusta-Victoria: "Liebknecht and his harlot, Rosa Luxemburg, camped three nights in the Imperial bedroom - oh, the blasphemy...
...League of German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
Died. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, 66, "the Clarence Darrow of Germany"; after long illness; in Queens, L.I. A Socialist, onetime Prussian Minister of Justice, longtime Reichstag member, he gained fame for his legal defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...