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Karl Liebknecht
(13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German
socialist
and a co-founder with
Rosa Luxemburg
of the
Spartacist League
and the
Communist Party of Germany
. He is best known for his opposition to
World War I
in the
Reichstag
and his role in the
Spartacist uprising
of 1919. The uprising was crushed by the
social democrat
government and the
Freikorps
(paramilitary units formed of World War I veterans). Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed.
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