Words from this poem have been itching the back of my mind for weeks now and just a few minutes ago when reading the last post I wrote, I remembered it in full. Here is the translation from the original:
First They Came... By Martin Niemöller
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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5 days ago
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I remember this poem.
I also remember interviewing an old German woman for my WWII concentration camp paper in high school.
I upset her very much because I could not accept that her family lived down the street from Dachau and that no one in the town did anything to fight back.
I still don't.
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