"Karl Liebknecht [...] organized a demonstration to end WWI on May 1, 1916, held on Potsdamer Platz. The "foundation stone for a monument for Karl Liebknecht" was laid on August 13, 1951 on the site of the anti-war protest. After construction of the Berlin Wall, the pedestal was located inside the border strip, after the fall of the Wall it was found to be on private ground and was accordingly removed on March 23, 1995 and put in storage." (
, retrieved on 8 July 2009) In November 2003, the unfinished monument was erected once again.
[Von dieser Stelle aus / rief / Karl Liebknecht / am 1. Mai 1916 zum Kampf / gegen den imperia- / listischen Krieg / und für den Frieden / auf]
[Grundstein eines Denkmals für Karl Liebknecht 1871 bis 1919]