First They Came (person)
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This is the sequence of the original quote of 1946. The history and development, free variations and usage traced here Harald Marcuse's site This is the first variation of 1946. It may well have insulted Jewish feelings but historically the sequence is correct. The first targets were the communists and socialists after all the Nazis did not want competitors in their grasp for power or their elections in March, 1933. First they came for the socialists,
Then they came for the unionists,
Then they came for the Jews,
Then thy came for me,
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