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The Communist Party of Germany (, ; KPD ) was a major far-left political party in the Weimar Republic during the interwar period, underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany, and minor party in Allied-occupied Germany and West Germany during the post-war period until it merged with the SPD in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 and was banned by the West German Federal Constitutional Court in 1956. The construction of the KPD began in the aftermath of the First World War by the Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's faction of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) who had opposed the war and the Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany (MSPD)'s support of it. The KPD joined the Spartacist uprising of January 1919, which sought to establish a council republic in Germany. After the defeat of the uprising, and the murder of KPD leaders Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Leo Jogiches, the party temporarily steered a more moderate, loyal-oppositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Liebknecht-Haus
The Karl-Liebknecht-Haus or ''Karl Liebknecht House'' is the headquarters of the party ''The Left (Germany), The Left'' in Germany. It is located between Alexanderplatz and Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin-Mitte. Constructed in 1912 as a factory, the building was purchased by the Communist Party of Germany (''Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands'', KPD) in 1926. It became the seat of its Central Committee and was named in honor of Karl Liebknecht, the KPD leader who was murdered by a Freikorps, paramilitary unit in January 1919. After Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), German chancellor, the Berlin police raided the headquarters, and by March 1, the Nazi swastika flag was flying over the building. Renamed the Horst Wessel House, the building at first served as a district police station and detention center in which Jews and political opponents were tortured. In 1935, the finance department of the state of Prussia moved into the building. Severely dam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
