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ND-Dem

(4,571 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:07 PM Mar 2015

German soldiers execute a communist, 1919

http://dailysanctuary.com/a-rare-photos-from-the-past/4/

I just thought the kid looked so young & defiant.

also on the next page is a letter from Gandhi to hitler...

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German soldiers execute a communist, 1919 (Original Post) ND-Dem Mar 2015 OP

looks staged, why would anyone shoot into a perfectly good building? snooper2 Mar 2015 #1

as it turns out, you may be right. so let no one say i ignore legitimate criticism. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #2

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

1. looks staged, why would anyone shoot into a perfectly good building?

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Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:09 PM

Mar 2015

ND-Dem

(4,571 posts)

2. as it turns out, you may be right. so let no one say i ignore legitimate criticism.

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 30, 2015, 02:15 PM

Mar 2015

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/execution-german-communist-munich-1919/

Though I assumed it had something to do with the spartakist rebellion and it appears to have done:

On the reverse of this photograph was written: “Zum ewigen Andenken an den Spartakisten Krieg in München Bayern.” – As an eternal memento of the Spartacist War in Munich, Bavaria.

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