was the the prime mover behind the German Protestant Church's "Confession
Right after the war in 1946 he wanted his German audiences to admit that they had failed morally, to accept their responsibility for the mass atrocities committed by their Nazi government in their name. The true sequence, which culminates the Nazi genocide of the Jews, is both literally and morally stronger than the corrupt forms that are becoming now widespread: First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
also in Reden 1945-54, 43ff. At that time he may not have remembered
Dachau Sermons, translated
heutigen Welt" (Geneva, 24 Nov. 1952). were you from 1933 until July 1, 1937?" I know that he varied his anecdote about his November 1945
time (based on the online version of the Biographisch-Bibliographischen
much for him understanding what Niemöller meant!] in which Niemöller, in a 1976 interview, at that time thought he first
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me. --
"You ever heard of the old poem 'first they came for the Jews'? Which groups did he name? million German Menschen behind the iron curtain," and
Glaubens, seines Gewissens, seiner Ueberzeugung ..."
), This is a great example of a perversion of Niemoeller's meaning in his famous quotation--"they" (what a fantasy!) As a librarian, Kadel should know that just because a book is not
of Senator McCarthy. Franklin Littell's long-held view that this quotation was first
them. Aug. 1953): very interesting talk, lots about meaning of "Volk"
German theologian and Protestant (Lutheran) pastor, founder of the anti-Nazi
drown instead. Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a German anti-Nazi activist and Lutheran pastor. 1946, than when it was revived in the 1970s and he was again asked about it. a short summary of my assessment of the origin of the quotation and its original version, I offer this Jan. 8, 2003 answer I wrote in
peace march in San Francisco, Europe:
[sic! vor Studierenden der Philipps-Universität zu Marburg an der Lahn am
Yad Vashem, featuring "The World Center for Teaching the
minorities (Catholics were no minority in Germany), regardless
The phrasing is awkward, and the verb "attacked" doesn't
to top), Time Magazine Articles (search keywords at Time.com)(back
nationalist he initially supported Hitler, but as the Nazis began to interfere
[last updated 11/22/07]. but the report has the virtue of telling the truth.) To learn more about Holocaust Memorial Day and discover more poetry featuring a and frequently used during Niemoller's visits to the United States
A
keinen Unterschied, ob der Mensch, dessen Freiheit bestritten wird und
realized --, yes, 1933, indeed: Hermann Göring bragged publicly that
The Jews especially did not deserve what happened to them. Commandment (London,
Martin Niemöller Poem. And I hope Niemöller would not have agreed with Littell's homophobic slurs! himself blatantly claims as his authoritative source a letter from
of biblical passages, about West German rearmament and the "18
St. Jacobi in Göttingen, Göttingen 1946; [RLIN: Harvard] us-israel.org
Rede, gehalten
article about Niemöller, New
1931 Niemöller became a pastor in a wealthy Berlin suburb. That Wikiquote page also mentions that the quotation is sometimes (esp. The true historical sequence, which Niemoeller of course followed, was communists, socialists, trade unionists, and Jews. the crucifixion and the writing of Paul's epistles". 1946, and it took on the well-known poetic form in the early 1950s, by 1955 at the latest. ein Chamberlain und ein Daladier hätten danach Hitler keinen Glauben
England Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Golden
However, in light of the discussion
policies, i.e. to protecting Nazi war criminals from the death penalty, and because of
thought first of the Communists, then the disabled, then Jews, and finally
They'll get to you soon enough. number of English language periodical publications for articles about
Denazifizierung
. " (I tell his story of that visit in
or "remained silent. Most of us, in this PC age, are familiar with the following sentiments or some variant, supposedly written by prominent German Protestant theologian and pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the Nazis. Martin Niemöller was born in the Westphalian town of Lippstadt, Germany, on January 14, 1892. The politicians are crooks. Then they came for me--
As the poem says, first they came for the Jews, then the Communists and so forth on down the line until it's your turn to be taken away and beaten to death just for not being one of them. so the discussion after this might be relevant. and special obligations of Germans, but nothing close to our quotation. Instead, Kadel asserts,
already under lock and key because of their crimes, were now sitting behind
had said in the 1940s--in 1976 he was 84 years old, and he might have forgotten
Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (Chicago: Univ. in Wilhelm Niemöller's 1952 book, Spanish
9 million Heimatvertriebene in West Germany--they need our solidarity. Dachau Sermons (New York: Harper & brothers, 1946). First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. But when we asked him years ago about the addition of the Roman
Niemoller's daughter written in 1991! Mai 1946 / Martin Niemöller. A: The point he wanted to make was that we--bystanders--have to stand up even for people being physically persecuted, even and especially when we disagree with their views. published speeches and sermons, 1946-54 (back
A 20th Century Journey, New England Holocaust
To speak out for me. From 1937-1945, Niemöller was imprisoned in two concentration camps and narrowly escaped execution. First, they came for the carriage horses, and no one spoke out, because the didn’t know about horses, and how they have lived, Because they said work was cruel, and the only work for horses in our world, was to be rescued, and never work. Niemöller gave during that time (updates added in the next
major update June 8, 2002
organised groups to co-operate together in resisting evil. The poem has many different versions; the version featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial reads: “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a socialist. Not und Aufgabe der Kirche in Deutschland. Omitting the Communists and placing Jews first probably also shows
In 1947 his reputation was challenged because he devoted substantial energy
This poem is all too apt for those rejoicing that conservatives are being silenced. Kirche d. Rheinprovinz fur d. Saargebiet, 1946). Any average student of the third Reich should be able to give the record accurately; it is a shocking display of professional incompetence when materials that are supposed to be vetted by specialists can be issued that are simply contrary to the record. "The Origin and Reception of Martin Niemöller's Quotation 'First They Came for the Communists...'", federal security agents in unmarked vans started kidnapping people, "The Origin and Reception of Martin Niemöller's Quotation 'First They Came for the Communists...',", Anti-Semitic flyers appear outside Ferndale church, ‘Then they came for me’: A Hitler supporter’s haunting warning has a complicated history, ‘First They Came’: The Poem of the Protests, www.opendemocracy.net/5050/yasmin-rehman/islamist-terrorism, pdf of his illustrated and hyperlinked text, Martin Niemöller in America, 1946-1947: ‘A Hero with Limitations’, tarfin posted a 2:33 version with contemporary updates, dholicky has a March 2009 animated version, Lewis
2. me, Harry Reynolds, blog entry, Jan. 10, 2004 (. From this summary (pages 6-9 of my printout), based on the scripts of N's sermons, it seems he emphasized German suffering quite a bit, while only touching on German guilt. p. 253 "Unser Volk unter den Voelkern" (Hamburg Kirchentag,
No hint that he said anything resembling his famous quotation while in the US at that time. "First they came ..." is the poetic form of a post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). I ask: Will having them cower under their desks and get frog-marched to a secure location, like the schoolchildren they refuse to protect from mass shooters, be a lesson to them that sticks? what he said for different audiences, perhaps including other groups,
They came for the Communists, and I. didn’t object – For I wasn’t. York Times index: articles 1933-2004, 4-page
Sassoon Center newsletter]. Niemöller
English translation of this work, Detailed analysis
Oct. 2003, Jan. 2004
different versions of these words in different speeches/sermons, and
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Niemöller was assigned to a U-Boat, of which he was eventually appointed the commander. The quotation itself, as it’s used today, Marcuse notes, “most likely emerged in 1946, and it definitely took on the well-known poetic form by the early 1950s.”', I began the research for this page by obtaining. Black: "Glenn, the Nazis are everywhere ...". "forty years after
in the 1920s. Wikiquote Niemoeller page attributes the quote to an Easter
because I was not a communist;
greatest thing Andrew Jackson never said, false attribution to Bertolt
the Christ of God to the cross." (quoted
Still, given the history of the poetic quotation, I would suggest (in English):
Oh, I forgot to add Mother's husband Mike Pence, bravest, cravenest of them all. This is probably an incorrect
(added Jan. 2004), An die Göttinger Studenten. a Communist; They came for the Socialists, and I. didn’t object – For I wasn’t a Socialist; They came for the labor leaders, and I. didn’t object – For I wasn’t a labor leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn’t. with additions from the research libraries database RLIN, June 2002). A: The Niemöller Foundation in Germany includes an--incorrect!--version of the quotation on its website (it leaves out Jews, based on a misinterpretation of an interview with Niemöller in 1976), but makes no claim to own copyright, and I do not know of any cases where anyone has claimed authorship or rights. p. 279: "Die gemeinsame Verantwortung der evangelischen Kirchen
between 1950 and 1954, as follows: "Pastor Niemöller spoke for thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. Assessment by Marcuse: This comment appears to be based on Niemöller's
"), Biography of Martin
Marcuse, UC Santa Barbara
In later speeches Niemöller claimed that a November 1945
stance against serving in the army. und Ueberzeugungen vertritt: der Protestantismus als solcher weiss sich
Other
In November 1945 German Pastor Martin Niemöller
Library [1947] 79 p. 21 cm. claims MN first used the quotation as an answer to a student's question,
They can take care
13 v. 15.2.1946); [UCSB: DD232.5 .N481 microfilm: 1945:Oct.-1949:July
The damage is not as serious, perhaps, as the steady infiltration of "Holocaust revision" (i.e., denial). to find out when Niemöller first said that quotation in its poetic form, but I have not been able to document it with a published source linked directly to him. memorial, page
Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Hitler's rise to power at first. Socialism is coming for you today
1933 -- at that moment I
opening; it uses the same corrupted form. himself as the "correct" version,
His crime w… First They Came is a poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller. Germany "What would Jesus Christ say?"] Learn from Neimöller's bitter regret, before it's too late. Januar 1946 zu
"Niemoller's
The Facist grew to fight the Communist. 6/1949. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. claim on his view that the purpose was to point to the failure of
umgebracht wurden, wenn wir da zu ihm gestanden ... hätten, ich
said to Hitler: Martin Niemöller and Schweizerisches evangelisches Hilfswerk
(The
d. Evang. auf S. 150 sagt N., dass Christus auch fuer die Kommunisten gestorben
"First they came..." the poem written by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) is a powerful statement - the idea that no one should be instinctively not cared about, that everyone is … but also the omission of the Jews who were in no position to mobilize
Then, they came for the the barn cats, and no […] Reden 1945-1954. Thus I can't say what his original version was. Drew Kadel of the Burke Library, Union Theological
Personal and Collective Responsibility in WWII, Stuttgart
first the Pfarrernotbund (Pastors' Emergency League), then the
The quotation is now famous, but often in corrupted form. talks about the Bekennende Kirche as a "geschlossene Gesellschaft," bible quotes, but not the quotation we want. There is a more than pedantic point to insisting that the Niemoeller quotation be truthfully used, if at all. p. 43: see above, Zur gegenwärtigen Lage der evangelischen Christenheit
most famous quotation: "First they came for the Communists
I would serve him. Stalin and Mao killed more, yet Hitler is more vilified. In 1910 he became a cadet in the Imperial German Navy. Then they came for the trade unionists . because I was not a Jew;
I don't think that this 1976 statement reflects what Niemöller
Und wenn wir mit ihm [sic] in den Tod gegangen waeren, ob es dann nicht
the 1960s. die deutsche Schuld, Not und Hoffnung [6 Jan. 1946] ,
und schon wieder suchen Menschen nach Menschenmaterial, um diesen Krieg
Und doch sind sie beide--Verfolger
Barbara, where I've been teaching since 1992. -- Wie war das moeglich? [ord ill 5/10], Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann passed away on November 22, 2004
Mainz--its population was about 42,000 at the time) whom Mayer interviewed
a poem, but part of a sermon on Easter of 1946 in Kaiserslautern,
English translation of this work (the linked page includes a detailed discussion
earlier date. simply laughed and passed it off. companies give them $700 billion.). after a brief illness (. Record (the first published version I know of)[after I wrote that I found one
variously as "stand up for," "speak out," "protest,"
This is a restatement of German pastor Martin Niemoeller's famous mea culpa statement in the late 1940s and early 1950s to suit our time. and calls to resist "politischer Totalitarismus" like that
As a historian at the college level, I'd probably say have
Reuss' rendition of Samuels' statement as a direct quotation of Samuels (not
I have checked quite a few sources for the years 1945-1954. and there was no one left to speak out for me. ), as if Niemöller himself had not mentioned them. In addition
active opposition to Adenauer's anti-Communist and pro-armament
any published version very close to the pithy, poetic formulation, although
were attacked. After the war, active in international church affairs, he made preaching trips across the United States. First, They Came for the Truth. Beck: "First they came for the Jews and I stayed silent----next
Administration and a leader of the Nation's Jewish community," at a rally
Poems are the property of their respective owners. (Black: difference "they came for the Jews to kill them, but to the
Born in Lippstadt, Germany on 14th January 1892, his father was a pastor. Associates, jumbles the sequence of Niemoeller's warning and
in the Congressional
(back
that Niemoller listed the Nazis' victims in the order in which they
. 97 p. [UCSB: BX8066.N47 D3]. or changing the order depending on his goals. Darmstadt
Gate University library, page
single out Jehovah's Witnesses as positive examples for their principled
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up - because I was a Protestant. So that version is "definitive" only
as part of his description of his Nov. 1945 return-to-Dachau experience: Wir rufen Deutschland zu Gott: Eine Rede. In
Niemöller for those years, including the magazine Christian
to many publications of Niemöller's speeches, I have reviewed a
In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. Full German text of Liturgie vom Hauch. Other
And they came for them to deport them. they came for the gays, and I didn't protest....". März 1946, hrsg. The inclusion of industrialists by Samuels doesn't
"You ever heard of the old poem 'first they came for the Jews'? Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. first question, as well as clear answers to the other
of fireblade coffeehouse, New
Here is a list of published speeches Niemöller gave around the same
think Niemöller may himself have used
weiss nicht, ob Gott uns dann nicht beigestanden hätte und ob dann
der Bekennenden Kirche 46/3, Stuttgart 1946); The Spanish
Because all communists who weren't
by the paraphraser. But it does help to create an atmosphere of playing fast and loose with the facts through intellectually dishonest and self-serving manipulation of the text. For instance, Niemöller included 'incurables' (Unheilbare) and Jehovah's Witnesses in his earliest speeches, but they never appear in any of the poetic versions I could find. And then they came for the women and I spoke up— Because women hold up half the sky. discussion of Niemöller's antisemitism with Prof. Cohn, 1989 article from the Vidal
His diary entry about that visit and some subsequent speeches he gave show that that visit triggered
Juli 1946
From the publisher's ad in Wilhelm N's Macht vor Recht (1952):
Is the poem/quotation copyrighted? by hm: I apologize for Prof. Littell's bigoted choice of words--so
When groups threatening others with harm invoke the quotation to call for protection for themselves, they are perverting his meaning, turning it into a kind of perpetrators' credo, that is for perpetrators wanting to see themselves as victims. have an almost definitive answer to the
Throughout the poem, Niemöller uses repetition to describe the Nazis actions. It begins, "First
and his wife visited the former Dachau concentration camp, where he had been imprisoned from 1941 to April 1945. New York/London, Harper & Brothers [c1946] vii.,
is up to you. We could call this the perpetrator's credo: "First the Jews came for the antisemites, ... then they came for the racists, and when they came for the raging conspiracy theorists and fear mongers, there was no one left to speak for them. sound like Niemöller. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. versions of the quotation on the web (back to top), Other
Then They came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Since discovering the diary entry in the late 1980s I've tried
They are the apple of God’s eye. Thus the quotation was clearly well known long before 1974, the year
speeches later in his life, occurred when he commanded his submarine
prior to 1955 and a couple more in the late 1950s] is certainly a paraphrase, with the various groups chosen
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew. Sibylle Niemöller's
was a typical Christian antisemite who openly professed his belief that
report of an eyewitness many years after the fact (which) should
[See Niemöller, First
Und schon wieder reden Menschen von einem weiteren, dritten Weltkrieg,
my view, identification with the victims, and regret at the indifference
nach dem Zusammenbruch klingen hier auf und werden in vollmächtigen
Brecht, Jon
geringsten unserer menschlichen Brueder verfolgt und geschlagen und
response to the question in 1974, which he mentioned in an
the communist danger was eliminated. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out, Because I was not a Trade Unionist. for those years. This early statement implies that he may have
Explore poems. Die politische Verantwortung des Christen im akademischen
any possible resistance by signing the Concordat. corruption of the text was never seen by Niemoller: he died before
Niemöller was imprisoned in the Dachau camp, and shortly after World War II formulated this saying based on an experience had when going back for a visit. However, even if the Niemöller quotation is somewhat Brechtian, since Brecht was himself a communist, he would not have included the Communists in the groups, so I think that that origin can safely be ruled out. First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. I haven't prepared an online version of Zerner's article, but I offer this assessment of it: Drew Kadel disputed Zerner's assessment, in a 1996 article critiqued by John Conway in the Aug. 1997. Even though he had earlier held traditional anti-Judaic prejudices,
Martin Niemoeller's message, in its true form, carries a powerful moral impact. Finally, I've included extra pages in the pdf, namely the prefaces, the table of contents, and a timeline of Niemöller's life (final pages). he originally formulated the quotation in the mid to late 1940s. from circulation by the Philosophical Society after it became known
Niemöller definitely included the disabled (which is historically correct
This poem is ascribed to the German pastor Martin Niemoeller (1892–1984), who protested Hitler's anti-semite measures in person to the fuehrer, was eventually arrested, and then imprisoned for … 6 quotes from Martin Niemöller: 'First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, Because I was not a Socialist. At that time he brought the message of concern for others, often driving the point home with a confession of his own blindness when the Nazi regime rounded up the communists, socialists, trade unionists, and, finally, the Jews. to top). Whether you want to take the 1946 not-quite-polished versions,
having used the quotation decades earlier, much less which groups
from seven years of concentration camp deeply impressed by the sufferings
hmmm, yes, very meaningful, thank you for sharing, اقتباس من مارتن نيمولر (Das Zitat/The Quote - by Martin Niemöller)(ar), Cytat (Das Zitat - Autor: Martin Niemöller)(pl), Het Citaat (Das Zitat - van Martin Niemöller)(nl), La Citation (Das Zitat - de Martin Niemöller)(fr). I was not concerned. According to a short announcement in the
On 25 Jan. 1934, at a meeting in the Reich chancellory, Niemöller
He died
vs. anti-Semitism in Haaretz, Nov. 6, 2008; see also this
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