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IHIP News: The Imaginary "Crisis" (Original Post) MagaSmash 9 hrs ago OP
Pastor Martin Niemller, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was an outspoken public critic of Adolf Hitler..... usaf-vet 9 hrs ago #1

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1. Pastor Martin Niemller, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who was an outspoken public critic of Adolf Hitler.....
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 12:07 PM
9 hrs ago

.... and spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps. The most widely known English version goes like this:

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
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