First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
It is Martin Niemoller's birthday (1892).
He voted for Hitler, three times.
Niemoller wrote this poem, published two years after his release, in 1945, from the Nazi Dachau concentration camp:
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