Count Harry Kressler Liveblogs the Suppression of the Spartikists

From Harry Graf Kressler, Berlin in Lights:

Thursday 16 January 1919: Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg have met with a dreadful and fantastic end. The midday edition of BZ has published the story. Last night Liebknecht was shot from behind while being taken in a truck through the Tiergarten and, so it is said, trying to escape. Rosa Luxemburg, having been interrogated by officers of the Guards Cavalry Division in the Eden Hotel, was first beaten unconscious by a crowd ther and then...