ROSA LUXEMBURG
19
Breslau, October
18, 1918
Darling Sonitschka,
I wrote to you the day before yesterday. I have still received no
answer to the telegram that I sent to the Chancellor. It may take a
few days longer. But one thing certain is that my mind is at such a
pitch that
it
is impossible for me now to receive my friends under
supervision. I have put up with it patiently all these years, and under
different circumstances could have gone on being patient much longer,
but now that everything has changed from top to bottom I no longer
have the strength to take that on myself. To be watched during my
conversations, and to be unable to speak about what interests me so
acutely, has become such a torment for me that I prefer to give up
all visits until we can meet once more as free men.
In any case this can't last much longer. Since they have freed
Dittmann and Kurt Eisner, they can't keep me in prison much longer,
and Karl
will
be free soon too. So let's wait to see each other until
we can do it
in
Berlin.
In the meanwhile, all my greetings.
Yours always,
ROSA
Translated
by
ELEANOR CLARK
THE DEATH OF LUXEMBURG: A NEWSREEL
From the New York
TIMES, January 18, 1919.
Berlin, Jan. 16 (Associated Press)-Dr. Karl Liebknecht was killed
by soldiers yesterday while he was trying to escape from custody.
Rosa Luxemburg was beaten into insensibility by a mob and after–
ward was shot to death....
Virtually the entire Berlin press regards the fate of Dr. Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxemburg as having "something of divine justice in it," as
the
T ages?,eitung
phrases it.... The press in general deplores the lynch–
ing of Rosa Luxemburg, but declares that she fell a victim to the basest
passions which she herself had awakened....
The whole city is now swarming with soldiers, wearing steel helmets,
carrying loaded rifles, and with hand grenades hanging on their belts.
. . . Karl Kautsky, former Under Secretary in the Foreign Affairs Ministry
of the Ebert Government . . . was arrested yesterday morning. He was
liberated later.
