Newspaper building on fire Berlin 1919
During the January 1919 Spartakist uprising, the Berliner Tageblatts (Berlin Daily News) newspaper building was taken over by the revolutionaries and bombarded by guns manned by the army. The latter was assisted by elements of the right-wing Freikorps, who greatly outnumbered them. These irregular forces, less disciplined than the army, exacted brutal revenge on the socialists and indulged in indiscriminate killing
Picture No
13140182
Media ID
45806336
Size
3121px x 4961px
(3.1MB)
Credit
(c) Holts Battlefield Collection / Mary Evans
Usage Restrictions
Editorial Use Only
Source
Postcard Pub. Ange Photochemie, Berlin
Date
1919
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