The Spartacist Uprising
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The Spartacist Uprising:
- 5th-12th January 1919.
- Berlin.
- KPD ( a Communist group) attempted to seize the political power from the government through an armed revolt. They wanted to take control and make Germany Communist.
- The leaders were Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
- Ebert/the government ordered the Freikorps to crush the revolt. The Freikorp were opponents of Communism and supporters of the Weimar Republic.
- Over 1500 people had been killed by the Freikorp…
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