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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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