I read about the demonstration. Nothing worth of comment. Among the demonstrators were a terrorist group "Antifa" based in Germany who are nothing more than a bunch of punks with a lot of time in their hands. Carlos Olaf Schroeter wrote: > > John King wrote: > > > > BTW, let's also not forget that the Freikorps were extremely brutal in > > their indiscriminate political violence suppressing left-wing > > insurrection. Following the Baltic expedition they were also involved in > > politically motivated murder and terrorism. > > Yesterday in Berlin there was a big demonstration in memory of Rosa Luxemburg and > Karl Liebknecht, two of the very few members of the German Reichstag who voted > against the First World War (simplified, I know), founded the KPD after the war > and werde murdered 90 years ago, on 15/1/19 (or 1/15/19 for Americans) bei > Freikorps Officers. > > All in all the Freikorps' aim wasn't to save democracy at all, no matter what they > may or may not have saved whoever from. > > Greetings from Berlin > > Olaf
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