As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader, and as a ...

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984 ... He is best known for his poem, “First They came.” With thanks to Niemöller, this is my adaptation based on our current situation in the United States.

Since the Nov. 6, 1946 poem," First They Came," by Pastor Martin Niemöller has been in my head. Dreadful, dark thoughts swirled as I wondered if I wanted to live in this world where too many ...

After World War II, German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller famously said, “First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the ...

“First They Came” is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. The original poem explained how Hitler and the Nazis came to power.