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Niemöller’s Quote at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum His powerful words about guilt and responsibility still resonate today. It is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a poem.Īfter World War II, Niemöller openly spoke about his own early complicity in Nazism and his eventual change of heart. This quote is attributed to the prominent German pastor Martin Niemöller. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist. The Quoteįirst they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.