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Die Rote Fahne

Die Rote Fahne header from 23 November 1918
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Wilhelm Hasselmann, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Frölich
Founded1876 (1876)
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageGerman
CountryGermany

Die Rote Fahne (German: [diː ˈʁoːtə ˈfaːnə], The Red Flag) was a German newspaper originally founded in 1876 by Socialist Worker's Party leader Wilhelm Hasselmann,[1] and which has been since published on and off, at times underground,[2] by German Socialists and Communists. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg famously published it in 1918[3] as organ of the Spartacus League.[4]

Following the deaths of Liebknecht and Luxemburg during the chancellorship of the Social Democratic Party of Germany's Friedrich Ebert,[5][6] the newspaper was published, with interruptions, by the Communist Party of Germany.[7][8] Proscribed by the National Socialist Worker's Party government of Adolf Hitler after 1933,[9] publication continued illegally, underground.[10]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Marrus, Michael Robert (2011-08-02). The Nazi Holocaust. Part 5: Public Opinion and Relations to the Jews in Nazi Europe. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110970449.
  3. ^ To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921. BRILL. 2015-02-13. ISBN 9789004288034.
  4. ^ Weitz, Eric D. (1997). Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton University Press. pp. 91–92. ISBN 0691026823.
  5. ^ Habbe, Christian (2009-01-09). "Luxemburg und Liebknecht: Dauerfehde um einen Doppelmord". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  6. ^ Kellerhoff, Sven Felix (2019-01-14). "Märtyrer der KPD: So starben Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg". Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  7. ^ Sewell, Rob (2018-11-12). Germany 1918-1933: Socialism or Barbarism. Wellred Books. ISBN 9781900007986.
  8. ^ Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Zeitungsabteilung. "Zeitungsinformationssystem ZEFYS - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  9. ^ "Münchner Rote Fahne, 1919 – Historisches Lexikon Bayerns". www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  10. ^ Marotta, Alina. "Ein Tanz auf Messersschneide- Kommunistische Tätigkeiten vom Ende der Weimarer Republik bin in die frühe Bundesrepublik anhand ausgewählter Karlsruher Beispiele" (PDF). ns-ministerien-bw.de. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

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