[3] Eisner is eventually shot dead on February 21, 1919 as part of the purge of communist/socialist thinkers and activists by the Ebert- Scheidemann regime.
[4] Luxemburg instructs Zetkin to prepare to write about women in the newly formed Die Rote Fahne. "As soon as you are back to normal we will talk about the work. We here are in the process, among other things, of laying the basis for the work with women and for educational work" Letter to Clara Zetkin, [Berlin, December 1918], The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.
[5] "It is worth noting in passing," Craig writes, "that many of the praetorians who combated the Spartacus Union in 1919--and this number included Pfug-Hartung [murders Liebknecht]and Vogel [murders Luxemburg], and Pabst, Faupel, and Reinhard--ended their careers as enthusiastic servants of Adolf Hitler" (Germany 1866-1945).
[6] Craig writes that it is "unlikely that he [Ebert] would have followed a different policy than the one he chose."
[7] See The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, editors Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson, 2004. Between November 1918 (when she is released from jail) and January 1919 (she is murdered), Luxemburg pens four articles, including "What Does the Spartacus League Want" (December 14, 1918) and "Order Reigns in Berlin" (January 14, 1919).
[8] Workers gathered in Tiergarten Park.
[9] At the rally, "speakers for the Spartacus League, including Karl Liebknecht, for the Revolutionary Shop Stewards, and for the People's Naval Division denounced the counterrevolutionary machinations and called for the formation of a Red Guard and workers' militia, and for the disarming of officers and NCOs active with the counterrevolution" (n.797, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader).
[10] German Communist Party (KPD), founding congress held December 30, 1918 - January 1, 1919.
[11] Col. Wilhelm Reinhard, free corps commander, was asked by a journalist if he had not be heard calling the "government a rabble and the new flag a Jewish rag." Of course, he responds, "cheerfully." "I make no bones of the fact that I am a monarchist. My God! When one has served his King and his country faithfully for thirty years, he can't suddenly say, "Starting tomorrow, I'm a republican!'" (Germany 1866-1945).
[12] On January 4, 1919 , a member of the "left wing of the USPD, Emil Eichhorn, was dismissed as head of the Berlin police. Workers and soldiers respond with mass rally in Berlin , and proceed to "arm themselves for an uprising for which they were largely unprepared. The uprising is quickly crushed (n.802, The Letters).
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