First They Came…
“First they came …” is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). Niemöller in May 1952 It is about the cowardice of German intellectuals and certain clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their […]