What is First they came...?
The [[poem]] '''First they came...''' was written by [[Martin Niemöller]]. It is a [[criticism]] of the way people in [[Nazi Germany]] did not stop the [[Nazi Party]] from treating other people poorly. The poem is as follows:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Politics/niemoller/ | title=Who Was Martin Niemoller? }}</ref> ::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. == References == {{reflist}} {{history-stub}} [[Category:Nazi Germany]] [[Category:20th-century poems]] [[Category:1946 works]] [[Category:German literature]] [[de:Martin Niemöller#Zitat]]