[ToryNotion]

The last bit about the 'First they came for the...' is a corruption of the original text. The order is 'first they came for the communists', then 'socialists, trade unionists, then Jews' (this is what in fact did happen historically).

[MindBender26]

Will fix, Thanx.

[ToryNotion]

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.

Paster Martin Niemoeller