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Which paramilitary group captured and executed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht?
Freikorps
Red Army
Black Reichswehr
Iron Front
Answer
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were captured and executed by the Freikorps, a government-sponsored paramilitary group consisting mostly of World War I veterans. The Freikorps were sent in by the SPD-ruled Weimar Republic to crush the Spartacist uprising.
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