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Martin Niemüller (1892-1984)
“First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time
there was no one left to speak up for me.”
Reverend Martin Niemüller’s famous quote
For his opposition to the Nazis, Niemüller was arrested in 1937, convicted of treason,
and spent eight years in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps (quote not changed)
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