Spellbinder Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenwolf Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 They also came for the people who spoke out. Like in my town there were a couple of pupils who made pamphlets against nazism and showed them around in their school. They all got murdered in a concentration camp. I really hate poems like that because they suggest that everybody who shut up during nazi time was a coward. But during war its smartness that keeps you alive, this includes to know when to shut up and not trying to be a one man army, except you want a street or a school named after you. If anything you could do something against a nazi regime in the underground resistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-freak Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 why is this in EOT? Topic and person are not subject for this board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spellbinder Posted March 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Oh i'm sorry i should have deleted the word nazu out of there. I just saw something in that text that is true even today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e-freak Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 (edited) -snip- Edited August 8, 2021 by e-freak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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