В 8 часов утра плотная толпа рабочих - почти 10 000 - собравшихся на площади, которую полиция уже заняла намного впереди. Karl Liebknecht's voice then rang out: 'Down with the War! Down with the Government!' The police immediately rushed at him. For the first time since the beginning of the war open resistance to it had appeared on the streets of the capital. The ice was broken.