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- Ibid., 118. The soldier-revolutionary comparison strikingly resembles a 1921 discussion
of Carl Schmitt, Dictatorship, trans. Michael Hoelzl and Graham Ward (Malden, MA: Pol-
ity Press, 2014), 151. Schmitt, however, equates soldier and revolutionary, where Buber distin-
guishes them. - Buber, “Recollection of a Death,” 119. The German officer walking “with clanking spurs
through the room” is most likely Eugen Leviné (1883–1919), who served in the German army
in World War I, joined the KPD, and may have ordered the shooting of hostages by the Red
Guards toward the end of April 1919.