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• Actually, you have printed a common bowdlerized version. What Niemoller wrote (corresponding to German reality) is:
  
  First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--
  because I was not a communist;
  Then 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 out for me.
  
  --David Pittelli
  http://www.woodedpaths.blogspot.com/
  
  

  By  DWPittelli, at 4/30/2005 08:39:00 PM  

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