[REVOLUTION IN GERMANY] Predatel'skoe ubiistvo Karla Libknekhta i Rozy Liuksemburg [The traitorous murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg].

Petrograd: Izdatel’stvo kommunisticheskogo internatsionala, 1920. Octavo (18.5 × 11.7 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 30, [2] pp. Partially unopened and uncut. Very good. Item #54124

An impassioned pamphlet reporting on the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin in January 1919. Published by the “Communist international” publishing house, the anonymous author of the pamphlet cites reports from the German press (newspapers such as “Freiheit” and “Die Republik”), as well as statements issued by the courts. A military court was tasked with investigating the deaths and concluded that the deaths were not the result of any foul play. The pamphlet also cites in full a letter from Theodore Liebknecht, a lawyer and the brother of Karl Liebknecht, written to the imperial government on behalf of the Liebknecht family which was published in the “Repubilk”. The letter asks the government for an independent investigation of the deaths, and a trial in the civil, and not the military court – requests that were denied. In response the pamphlet calls for a “revolutionary tribunal” citing the unreliability of the military court and the illegitimacy of the standing German government. Publisher advertising to wrappers, including works of other prominent revolutionaries such as Lenin, Trotsky, and Zinoviev.

As of May 2024, KVK, OCLC show copies at the British Library, Brown, and Brigham Young.

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