​First 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 for me.

Source:National Archief Netherlands

ByMartin Niemoellerwho was a protestant pastor who spoke out against Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

Find out more about him and his poem here:United States Holocaust Museum