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When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was non a social democrat.

Then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up considering I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no 1 left to speak out.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (fourteen January 1892 – vi March 1984) was a Protestant pastor and social activist.

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We must openly declare that we are non innocent of the Nazi murders, of the murder of High german communists, Poles, Jews, and the people in German-occupied countries.

I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could go a political leader — not even a church politician.

I began my political responsibleness as an ultra-conservative. I wanted the Kaiser to come up back; and now I am a revolutionary. I really mean that. If I alive to be a hundred I shall maybe be an anarchist, for an anarchist wants to exercise without all government.

I am now convinced that the Reformation of the church building volition come from the e.

• Our people are trying to break the bail set past God. That is human conceit rise against God. In this connection nosotros must warn the Führer, that the adoration often bestowed on him is only due to God. Some years ago the Führer objected to having his motion-picture show placed on Protestant altars. Today his thoughts are used as a basis not just for political decisions simply also for morality and law. He himself is surrounded with the dignity of a priest and even of an intermediary between God and man... Nosotros inquire that liberty exist given to our people to go their way in the hereafter nether the sign of the Cantankerous of Christ, in order that our grandsons may not curse their elders on the ground that their elders left them a land on earth that airtight to them the Kingdom of God.
  • Statement on behalf of the Confessional Church, signed by nine other pastors, every bit quoted in TIME magazine (27 July 1936)

• The oppression is growing, and anyone who has had to submit to the Tempter's auto-gun burn during this concluding week thinks differently from what he did even 3 weeks ago.
  • Final sermon before being imprisoned by the Nazi regime of Deutschland (27 June 1937), as quoted in Faith in the Reich (1939) by Michael Power, p. 142

• We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more than are nosotros set up to keep silent at man's behest when God commands united states of america to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that nosotros must obey God rather than homo.
  • Terminal sermon before existence imprisoned by the Nazi regime of Germany (27 June 1937), equally quoted in Religion in the Reich (1939) by Michael Power, p. 142

• No honest human or adult female in Germany feels responsible for these things. Proficient Germans took Nazism as a new religion. These people are shocked by the revelations which have shown that Nazism was not idealism, but a means to the operation of criminal acts...
  In war a German feels leap to join the ranks without question. Iii of my sons were called up. I could non hold back. I wrote from the concentration camp to Admiral Raeder, C. in C. of the Navy, request to exist allowed to return to the submarine service or to do any other service in the Navy. I heard nothing for several months, so a reply came, not from Raeder merely from Keitel, head of the Wehrmacht. He thanked me, simply regretted I could not be employed on active service.
  • Replying to questions on the atrocities of the concentration camps, at a press conference in Naples, Italy, and confirming that he actually had written a widely publicized letter of the alphabet from such a military camp, early in the war, to exist permitted to serve in the military (5 June 1945)

• Als die Nazis dice Kommunisten holten,
  habe ich geschwiegen;
  ich war ja kein Kommunist.

  Als sie dice Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
  habe ich geschwiegen;
  ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

  Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
  habe ich nicht protestiert;
  ich state of war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

  Als sie die Juden holten,
  habe ich geschwiegen;
  ich state of war ja kein Jude.

  Als sie mich holten,
  gab es keinen mehr,
  der protestieren konnte.

  • 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,
    at that place was no one left to speak out.

    • "Commencement they came..." – The origins of this poem first have been traced to a speech communication given past Niemöller on January 6, 1946, to the representatives of the Confessing Church in Frankfurt. Co-ordinate to inquiry by Harold Marcuse, the original groups mentioned in the speech were Communists, the incurably sick, Jews, and people in occupied countries. Since then, the contents accept frequently been contradistinct to produce numerous variants. Niemöller himself came upwardly with unlike versions, depending on the year. The well-nigh famous and well known alterations are perhaps those outset "First they came for the Jews" of which this is one of the more than ordinarily encountered:
      • Offset they came for the Jews
        and I did not speak out
        because I was not a Jew.
        Then they came for the Communists
        and I did non speak out
        because I was not a Communist.
        Then they came for the merchandise unionists
        and I did not speak out
        because I was not a merchandise unionist.
        And so they came for me
        and there was no one left
        to speak out for me.
  • Some other variant extends the comparisons to include Catholics and Protestants:
    • In Germany they first came for the Communists,
      and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
      So they came for the Jews,
      and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
      So they came for the trade unionists,
      and I didn't speak upward because I wasn't a merchandise unionist.
      And 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 no one was left to speak up.
  • Other translations or variants:
    • In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
      And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up considering I wasn't a trade unionist;
      And and then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
      And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak upwardly.
      • Twenty-five years later Niemöller indicated that this was the version he preferred, in a 1971 interview.

    • When the Nazis came for the communists,
      I did not speak out;
      Every bit I was not a communist.

      When they locked up the social democrats,
      I did not speak out;
      I was not a social democrat.

      When they came for the merchandise unionists,
      I did not speak out;
      As I was not a trade unionist.

      When they came for the Jews,
      I did not speak out;
      As I was not a Jew.

      When they came for me,
      there was no 1 left to speak out.

    • When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
      I said nothing; after all, I was non a Communist.
      When they locked up the Social Democrats,
      I said nothing; later all, I was not a Social Democrat.
      When they arrested the merchandise unionists,
      I said nada; after all, I was not a merchandise unionist.
      When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protestation.
    • First the Nazis came…
      First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out —
      because I was not a communist;
      Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —
      because I was not a socialist;
      And so they came for the merchandise unionists, and I did non speak out —
      considering I was non a trade unionist;
      And so they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
      because I was non a Jew;
      And then they came for me —
      and there was no one left to speak out for me.
    • Online source for German quote: Martin Niemöller Stiftung, 22.09.2005, Wiesbaden

• In Erlangen, for case, in January 1946 he spoke of meeting a High german Jew who had lost everything — parents, brothers, and sisters likewise. 'I could not help myself', said Niemöller, 'I had to tell him, "Love brother, fellow human, Jew, before yous say annihilation, I say to you: I admit my guilt and beg you to forgive me and my people for this sin."' Niemöller's opinion was by no means entirely welcome to the 1,200 students to whom he was preaching. They shouted and jeered equally he preached that Germany must accept responsibility for the five or vi one thousand thousand murdered Jews. Students in Marburg and Göttingen similarly heckled him. Only Niemöller insisted that "We must openly declare that we are not innocent of the Nazi murders, of the murder of German communists, Poles, Jews, and the people in German-occupied countries. No doubt others made mistakes too, but the wave of crime started hither and here it reached its highest meridian. The guilt exists, there is no dubiousness almost that — even if at that place were no other guilt than that of the half-dozen million clay urns containing the ashes of incinerated Jews from all over Europe. And this guilt lies heavily upon the German language people and the German name, even upon Christendom. For in our world and in our name take these things been done."
  • Sermons in Erlangen, Marburg, Göttingen and Frankfurt (January 1946), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 177

• The renunciation of war every bit expressed in the Japanese Constitution has given a first ray of hope to a earth in darkness and despair, and men today cling to this hope passionately. Tin can we really do something about information technology or are nosotros to stand up bated equally idle onlookers, unable to contribute for better or for worse?
  • Statement for a Japanese publication (February 1954), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 214

• I have never concealed the fact and said information technology earlier the courtroom in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask but that you expect at my life historically and accept it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question — as I revealed before the court — but that I returned domicile afterward eight years' imprisonment equally a completely dissimilar person.
  • Letter to a Dr. Weiner (1956), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 334

• We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced at present — that, afterward Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.
  • On his move toward pacifism and condign an activist against nuclear weaponry, every bit quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 213

• For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician — not even a church pol.
  • As quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 223

• I began my political responsibility equally an ultra-conservative. I wanted the Kaiser to come back; and now I am a revolutionary. I really mean that. If I live to be a hundred I shall maybe be an anarchist, for an agitator wants to do without all government.
  • As quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 223

• One matter is clear, the president of North Vietnam is non a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.
  • On Ho Chi Minh. as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 225

• I am now convinced that the Reformation of the church building will come up from the east. In the west there is no spiritual life. (I'm speaking of the Protestant church and not the Roman Catholic church.) We take civilisation and we endeavor to go along upward civilisation, simply we accept no spiritual life. The east has a spiritual life. They know that colour influences the spirit more than black lines. In Russia there is still the notion that fine art is nearer faith than thinking in lines and logic. All abstruse rationalising needs to be filled out with sensual thinking and feelings. In Russia there is still a strong impression of colour.
  • Statement on his admiration of the Eastern Orthodox traditions (1982), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 207

Quotes about Niemöller [edit]

When, in 1933, Goering publicly boasted that all agile Communists had been imprisoned and rendered harmless — that was when nosotros forgot our responsibility, that was when we should take warned our parishioners. … I know that I made my contribution towards the enslavement of the German language people. ~ Dietmar Schmidt

• You lot suppose that Christianity is oppressed in Germany and that at that place is a rule by force and secret trial. Though this is not the case, the German State cannot exist expected to tolerate incessant attacks, open or veiled, by ministers of the Christian faith upon its very foundations. There are recalcitrant pastors who seem to be unaware of the fact that they would have been shot, hanged or burned long ago if it had not been for the gigantic and successful struggle of Adolf Hitler to safeguard civilization in this country against the horrors of Communism. Therefore by attacking National Socialism, they are striking at themselves.
  • Dr. Reinhard Becker, in a letter to Niemöller (November 1937), every bit quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 135

• He chosen on the people to show a sense of responsibleness towards their boyfriend-men, he abjured them not to forget the lessons of the past and, above all, he reminded them constantly of the burden of guilt which had to be redeemed before a new life could begin. In so doing he was at pains not to exclude himself from a like responsibleness, and told in this connexion the story of the visit which he and his wife paid to Dachau in the autumn of 1945. "After showing her the cell in which he had been bars for then many months, they passed the crematorium. A great white-painted board had been affixed to a tree and on it, in black letters, they read: "Here between the years 1933 and 1945 238,756 homo beings were incinerated."
  At that moment, Niemoller told his audition, the consciousness of his ain guilt and his own failure assailed him every bit never before. "And God asked me — every bit one time He asked the Starting time Human after the Fall, Adam — Man, where wast thou in those years 1933 to 1945? I knew I had no reply to that question. True, I had an excuse in my pocket, for the years 1937 to 1945, my identity disc from the concentration camp. But what help to me was that? God was not asking me where I had been from 1937 to 1945, but from 1933 to 1945, and for the years 1933 to 1937 I had no answer. Should I accept said perhaps: 'As a pastor in those years I bore courageous witness to the Organized religion; I dared to speak, and risked life and freedom in doing then?' But God did non inquire about that. God asked: 'Where were you from 1933 to 1945 when human beings were incinerated here? When, in 1933, Goering publicly boasted that all active Communists had been imprisoned and rendered harmless — that was when nosotros forgot our responsibility, that was when we should have warned our parishioners. Many a man from my ain parish, who went and joined the National Socialist Party and who is now to practise penance for his deed, could ascent upwards against me today and say that he would take acted differently if I had not kept silence at that fourth dimension. … I know that I made my contribution towards the enslavement of the German language people.
  • Dietmar Schmidt, in Pastor Niemöller (1959)

• The Reverend Martin Niemoeller had personally welcomed the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933. In that twelvemonth his autobiography, From U-boat to Pulpit, had been published. The story of how this submarine commander in the First Globe War had get a prominent Protestant pastor was singled out for special praise in the Nazi press and became a best seller. To Pastor Niemoeller, as to many a Protestant clergyman, the fourteen years of the Republic had been, as he said, "years of darkness" and at the close of his autobiography he added a note of satisfaction that the Nazi revolution had finally triumphed and that it had brought about the "national revival" for which he himself had fought so long — for a fourth dimension in the gratis corps, from which so many Nazi leaders had come.
  He was shortly to experience a terrible disillusionment. … Past the beginning of 1934, the disillusioned Pastor Niemoeller had go the guiding spirit of the minority resistance in both the "Confessional Church" and the Pastor's Emergency League.
  • William L. Shirer, The Ascent and Fall of he Third Reich (1964), p. 233

• Niemöller had in one case once more delivered a rebellious sermon in Dahlem; at the same time transcripts of his tapped phone conversations were presented to Hitler. In a bellow, Hitler ordered Niemöller to exist put in a concentration camp and, since he had proven himself to be incorrigible, kept there for life.
  • Albert Speer, on Hitler'south conclusion to arrest Niemöller, in Inside the 3rd Reich: The Memoirs of Albert Speer (1970), p. 98

External links [edit]

• Profile at Spartacus schoolnet
• More than information on Niemöller's most famous statement presented past Harold Marcuse, Ph.D., at UC Santa Barbara.
• Who Was Martin Niemoller?
• Essay on Niemholler'south Argument
• The text (and an English translation) of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt
• Pastor Martin Niemöller

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