First They Came - Wikipedia " First They Came " (German: Als sie kamen lit 'When they came', or Habe ich geschwiegen lit 'I did not speak out'), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
Martin Niemöller: First they came for the Socialists. . . Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) was a prominent Lutheran pastor in Germany In the 1920s and early 1930s, he sympathized with many Nazi ideas and supported radically right-wing political movements But after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemöller became an outspoken critic of Hitler’s interference in the Protestant Church
First They Came by Pastor Martin Neimöller - Poem Analysis ‘ First They Came ’ by Pastor Martin Neimöller is a powerful poem that explores the nature of responsibility in times of war and persecution The poem speaks briefly about several of the groups hunted down and imprisoned or killed by the Nazis during WWII
First They Came… by Martin Niemöller | CommonLit Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) was a Lutheran pastor who supported Nazi ideas and its political movement during the 1920s When Hitler came to power in 1933, Niemoller changed his position and criticized the Nazis interference in church matters His protests resulted in being placed in Nazi prisons and concentration camps for eight years