Karl Liebknecht was assassinated during the same arrest as Rosa Luxemburg and 2 other founders of the Spartacus League died early in 1919 as well, so the League came to an end.

In the beginning of 1919 there were several revolts, strikes and establishments of communist council republics (on local level). They were violently overthrown by government and paramilitary troops, and the temporary government ended up founding the Weimar republic (still in 1919). The centrist parties chose to align with the old elites over the revolutionaries. In this context the Nazi party was founded in 1920.

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On 5 January 1919 mass strikes broke out against the temporary government. It was called the Spartacist uprising, though they didn't start it. The goverment employed right-wing paramilitary units to crush the uprising. By 13 January the revolt was suppressed and the Spartacist leaders went into hiding. They were discovered 2 days later, and Rosa Luxemburg was arrested and then assassinated.

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Rosa Luxemburg was released from prison on 9 November 1918, just in the beginning of the German Revolution.

The German revolution of 1918–1919, also known as the November Revolution, was an uprising started by workers and soldiers in the final days of World War I. In the first month it quickly and almost bloodlessly brought down the German Empire.

Luxemburg and Liebknecht (also just released from prison) reunited in Berlin and founded the Spartacus League with their friends of the Gruppe Internationale. They plunged into the revolution and together with other revolutionary groups they founded the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) on 1 January 1919.

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