In a city that often seems very much 'under construction', you still find many reminders of the past. This is the entrance to a courtyard in the district called Spandauer Vorstadt, once the meeting place for workers who founded Germany's communist party, led by Karl Liebknecht. He called for a German proletarian revolution in 1918. Germany ended up with the Weimar Republic instead, and very hard times that opened the door for Hitler.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Workers' Movement
In a city that often seems very much 'under construction', you still find many reminders of the past. This is the entrance to a courtyard in the district called Spandauer Vorstadt, once the meeting place for workers who founded Germany's communist party, led by Karl Liebknecht. He called for a German proletarian revolution in 1918. Germany ended up with the Weimar Republic instead, and very hard times that opened the door for Hitler.
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