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...Bolshevik Revolution for the sake of a successful Communist Revolution in Germany, the key country of Europe? In Berlin, history in the peculiar form of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Wilhelm Pieck, now a member of Moscow's Free Germany Committee, had begun the Spartacus revolt against the Weimar Republic. It was Communism's first bid for control of Germany. It failed when Liebknecht and Luxemburg were killed and their bodies thrown in the Spree Canal...
...picking obscure but fanatical Nazis for his guerrilla army. Some have been planted in concentration camps, to pose as anti-Nazis when the Allies take over. Others have been given identity cards taken from ordinary Germans killed in air raids, and from 30,000 people associated with the old Weimar Republic who were recently purged. Thus equipped, the chosen Nazis can merge into the general population without detection. Hitler Youth are being trained in underground techniques in three schools known as Ordensburgen, and in a postgraduate institution called the Führer Schule, at Chiem See in Bavaria. The guerrilla...
...Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
Shadowy Link. The revived Feme of the Weimar Republic was dedicated to the destruction of democracy, the resurrection of Teutonism and Junkerdom. It started in Bavaria. After World War I, German nationalists flocked together in societies, some of them secret like the C Organization, some studiedly innocent like the German Wrestling Bund or the German Social Employment Society. The link was the shadowy Feme, hidden wherever arms were hidden-on Junker estates in East Prussia and Silesia, and in Bavaria. Protection was supplied by the unreconciled in the Republic's Government, by discontented ex-officers in the Black Reichswehr...
...sentences of its kangaroo courts lay behind 354 political murders committed between the 1918 armistice and June 24, 1922, the day Germany's Jewish Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau died at the hands of the Feme. For all its crimes, two Feme murderers received light sentences in the skittish Weimar courts; the rest were left alone...