Spartacist Uprising Was to Unleash the Civil War

Precisely for this reason (and because it was co-led by Rosa Luxembourg – a Jew) this ill-fated (and totally idiotic) endeavor became one more “slab” in the “stack of slabs” that (after a critical mass had been accumulated) launched the “Holocaust Avalanche”. Ironically, she was against starting a civil war in Germany – and the whole thing was essentially a farce.

One stupid command by her co-conspirator (Karl Liebknecht) – to overthrow Council of People’s Deputies (the provisional government of Germany) by force of arms and prevent the elections to the National Assembly scheduled for 19 January – was enough to create the impression that “Judeo-Bolsheviks” intend to overthrow the legitimate government by force and unleash the devastating Civil War similar to the one in Russia.

Consequently, Jews and Bolsheviks must be eliminated… and the process started right after the uprising (which never really took off). On the evening of 15 January, Luxemburg and Liebknecht (full-blooded German) were found in the apartment of their friend by the Wilmersdorf Citizens’ Militia, arrested and taken to the Eden Hotel. Then they were severely beaten with rifle butts and unceremoniously shot.

Spartacist Uprising failed miserably before even commencing – because almost no one really wanted it to commence. With the exception of a few hundred (thousands at most), there was no appetite in Germany for illegal, violent overthrow of the government (no matter how provisional) by force. Just about everyone wanted to go the legal, peaceful, democratic way.

Nevertheless, provisional government decided that an ounce of prevention is better than a ton of subsequent cure and ordered Freikorps (who hated the Reds even more than they hated the provisional government) to suppressed the (largely illusory) uprising.

Freikorps attacked the Spartacists with flame throwers, machine guns, mortars and artillery, far outgunning them. There was little resistance; however, 156 Spartacists and 13 Freikorps members were killed.

Murderous suppression of Spartacist Uprising was far more significant than it was realized at that time. Future leaders of Nazi Germany (first and foremost, of the SS) were given a clear example of what to do with Jews and Communists.

You just shoot them. Cut and dry, plain and simple. This vivid, graphic example subsequently made it so much easier to murder… just about any “enemies of the Reich”. Polish elites, Soviet political commissars… and, of course, the Jews.