But that wasn't always the case.
Such was the case regarding the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
We've already touched on this story, but what I didn't realize, and in fact what's contrary to the way the story tends to be reported now, their murder was known have occurred almost immediately after it occurred. I thought it took a period of days, but not so.
But the story surrounding that murder was completely false.
Their murders did add fuel to the Communist flames, as the Casper paper reported, but it certainly wasn't at the hand of the Berlin populace, as seemingly all papers reported that day. There was no Berliner storming of the lobby of a hotel where they were staying. No mob clubbed Liebknecht and lynched Luxemburg (although her body was thrown in a canal). No, indeed, the story was ludicrous given that Berlin had the reputation of being a far left city at the time. . . Red Berlin.
As we know, they were killed by the Freikorps, under orders of a Freikorps Captain Waldemar Pabst, formerly an officer of the German Imperial Army. Liebknecht was clubbed to death with a rifle butt. Luxemburg was shot. Both were tortured. But not by a crowd of Berliners.
How did the contrary story get started? I don't know, but I have to suspect it was a planted story to cover up the murder.
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