• grranibal@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    I believe it’s more like “and no one was left to protect me” but I could be very wrong

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      16 hours ago

      Well the original poem goes

      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

      I changed it a little when writing for dramatic purposes as well as not remembering verbatim