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First they came.


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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...

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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.

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