Around the height of the Nazi period, he started repeating the verse, "First they came for the communists, and I did nothing, did not speak out because I was not a communist.
在纳粹集权时代， 他开始向人们重复这样的诗句， “他们追杀共产主义者的时候， 我没有说话， 因为我不是共产主义者；