"First they came ..." is the poem by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. It is about the silent complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
"First they came ..." is the poem by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. It is about the silent complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets, group after group.