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May 29, 2009 · BERLIN, May 29 (Reuters) - The corpse of Marxist activist Rosa Luxemburg has almost certainly been found in Berlin 90 years after her death, a forensic expert said on Friday. Michael Tsokos, the...
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Jan 15, 2018 · Tasked to peel potatoes, fell trees and bury the dead, Liebknecht suffered physical breakdown. He was kicked out of the SPD in 1916, an act that brought him into political union with Luxemburg.
Rosa Luxemburg’s corpse was thrown in the Landwehr canal and – as Karl Liebknecht was buried – an empty grave was left for her. She was buried there when the decomposed remains of her body were found. In 1929, Brecht wrote a poem ‘Epitaph’:
On 29 May 2009, Spiegel online, the internet branch of the news magazine Der Spiegel, reported the recently considered possibility that someone else's remains had mistakenly been identified as Luxemburg's and buried as hers.
Jan 15, 2009 · Her body was only recovered five months later after the winter ice had thawed and she was buried next to Liebknecht in the Friedrichsfelde Cemetry, the two becoming martyrs to the communist cause.
Mar 1, 2011 · Dr. Tsokos sent tissue samples to Munich, where a method of identifying trace isotopes in bones revealed that the corpse had lived in Poland, Switzerland and Berlin, and that it had signs of...
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