“Here, the time in which one lives, is glorious”

 

 Berlin's Landwehr Canal

Following a second revolutionary uprising in January 1919, left-wing revolutionary figures like Rosa Luxemburg were captured in Berlin by the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision. Knocked down with a rifle butt, then shot in the head; Luxemburg's body was flung into Berlin's Landwehr Canal at roughly this spot.

Some years before, Luxemburg wrote in a letter: “Here, the time in which one lives, is glorious.”