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There are several versions of the saying and different claims as to who said it first. There is a display of the quote at the Holocaust Museum. See discussion at Wikipedia Link. Here is the poem as attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) that expresses his feeling of the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
There was no one left to speak out.
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∙ 6y ago"First they came ..." is a poem written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
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