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A Socialist and a vocal critic of the German Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) war policies, co-founder of the anti-war Spartacus League in 1916 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1918, Rosa Luxemburg supported the German Revolution of 1918. In January 1919, she and her close comrade, Karl Liebknecht, were brutally murdered in Berlin by the ''Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division'' under the command of Waldemar Pabst. ... : 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War ...