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  1. #Kirchengeschichte: #Pfarrer, Parteigenossen, Persilscheine, #Tageszeitung #jungeWelt, 14.03.2026

    jungewelt.de/artikel/519179.ki

    > Die evangelische #Kirche stützte nicht nur großteils das #Naziregime, sie zeigte sich nach 1945 auch als unbußfertig. Über die zweite Schuld der Kirche ...

    ... Bischof George Bell von Chichester, England, bat zum Gespräch und forderte höflich, aber deutlich eine Erklärung zur deutschen Schuld – Otherwise no help (sonst keine Hilfe)! Im Gepäck hatten sie ein Hilfspaket für die Gemeinden Deutschlands. Drei Verfasser formulierten daraufhin einen Text, in dem aber nur ein einziger wirklich selbstkritischer Satz stand – auf diesem hatte #MartinNiemöller bestanden: »Durch uns ist unendliches Leid über viele Völker und Länder gebracht worden.« ...

    #EKD

  2. #Kirchengeschichte: #Pfarrer, Parteigenossen, Persilscheine, #Tageszeitung #jungeWelt, 14.03.2026

    jungewelt.de/artikel/519179.ki

    > Die evangelische #Kirche stützte nicht nur großteils das #Naziregime, sie zeigte sich nach 1945 auch als unbußfertig. Über die zweite Schuld der Kirche ...

    ... Bischof George Bell von Chichester, England, bat zum Gespräch und forderte höflich, aber deutlich eine Erklärung zur deutschen Schuld – Otherwise no help (sonst keine Hilfe)! Im Gepäck hatten sie ein Hilfspaket für die Gemeinden Deutschlands. Drei Verfasser formulierten daraufhin einen Text, in dem aber nur ein einziger wirklich selbstkritischer Satz stand – auf diesem hatte #MartinNiemöller bestanden: »Durch uns ist unendliches Leid über viele Völker und Länder gebracht worden.« ...

    #EKD

  3. #Kirchengeschichte: #Pfarrer, Parteigenossen, Persilscheine, #Tageszeitung #jungeWelt, 14.03.2026

    jungewelt.de/artikel/519179.ki

    > Die evangelische #Kirche stützte nicht nur großteils das #Naziregime, sie zeigte sich nach 1945 auch als unbußfertig. Über die zweite Schuld der Kirche ...

    ... Bischof George Bell von Chichester, England, bat zum Gespräch und forderte höflich, aber deutlich eine Erklärung zur deutschen Schuld – Otherwise no help (sonst keine Hilfe)! Im Gepäck hatten sie ein Hilfspaket für die Gemeinden Deutschlands. Drei Verfasser formulierten daraufhin einen Text, in dem aber nur ein einziger wirklich selbstkritischer Satz stand – auf diesem hatte #MartinNiemöller bestanden: »Durch uns ist unendliches Leid über viele Völker und Länder gebracht worden.« ...

    #EKD

  4. #Kirchengeschichte: #Pfarrer, Parteigenossen, Persilscheine, #Tageszeitung #jungeWelt, 14.03.2026

    jungewelt.de/artikel/519179.ki

    > Die evangelische #Kirche stützte nicht nur großteils das #Naziregime, sie zeigte sich nach 1945 auch als unbußfertig. Über die zweite Schuld der Kirche ...

    ... Bischof George Bell von Chichester, England, bat zum Gespräch und forderte höflich, aber deutlich eine Erklärung zur deutschen Schuld – Otherwise no help (sonst keine Hilfe)! Im Gepäck hatten sie ein Hilfspaket für die Gemeinden Deutschlands. Drei Verfasser formulierten daraufhin einen Text, in dem aber nur ein einziger wirklich selbstkritischer Satz stand – auf diesem hatte #MartinNiemöller bestanden: »Durch uns ist unendliches Leid über viele Völker und Länder gebracht worden.« ...

    #EKD

  5. First they came for the immigrants... then they came for everyone. 💲 💰 🏦 💰

    #Poetry of #Reality
    #MartinNiemoller / #MartinNiemöller

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    ex-#Nazi #Pastor #Peace #Germany #German

    🔽 #AltText also below 🔽

    (Pic 1) #Nazi #Swastika #symbol made from 4 T shapes of the word #Trump inversely
    (Pic 2) #Government = both #giving and #killing, doing #war
    (Pic 3) #Protest #sign (First they came for the #immigrants...)

  6. First they came for the immigrants... then they came for everyone. 💲 💰 🏦 💰

    #Summary of #Today
    #Poetry of #Reality
    #MartinNiemoller / #MartinNiemöller ex-#Nazi #Pastor #Peace #Germany #German

    🔽 #AltText also below 🔽

    (Pic 1) #Nazi #Swastika #symbol made from 4 T shapes of the word #Trump inversely
    (Pic 2) #Government = both #giving and #killing, doing #war
    (Pic 3) #Protest #sign (First they came for the #immigrants...)

  7. #rotehilfe #5nach12

    »Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
    habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.

    Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

    Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

    Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Jude.

    Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.«

    #martinniemöller

    sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/hil

  8. #rotehilfe #5nach12

    »Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
    habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.

    Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

    Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

    Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Jude.

    Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.«

    #martinniemöller

    sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/hil

  9. #rotehilfe #5nach12

    »Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
    habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.

    Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

    Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

    Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen;
    ich war ja kein Jude.

    Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.«

    #martinniemöller

    sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/hil

  10. @me @Em0nM4stodon It is worth reading about Pastor Niemöller. Until I did I naturally assumed that the person who penned that poem was an anti-Nazi pacifist Lutheran pastor. But his story is much more complicated than that.

    His life and progression in political opinions is worth a read. Maybe there IS hope for the MAGA faithful in that they can learn the error of (some) of their ways.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    #martinniemöller #solidarity #antifascism #epiphany

  11. @me @Em0nM4stodon It is worth reading about Pastor Niemöller. Until I did I naturally assumed that the person who penned that poem was an anti-Nazi pacifist Lutheran pastor. But his story is much more complicated than that.

    His life and progression in political opinions is worth a read. Maybe there IS hope for the MAGA faithful in that they can learn the error of (some) of their ways.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    #martinniemöller #solidarity #antifascism #epiphany

  12. @me @Em0nM4stodon It is worth reading about Pastor Niemöller. Until I did I naturally assumed that the person who penned that poem was an anti-Nazi pacifist Lutheran pastor. But his story is much more complicated than that.

    His life and progression in political opinions is worth a read. Maybe there IS hope for the MAGA faithful in that they can learn the error of (some) of their ways.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    #martinniemöller #solidarity #antifascism #epiphany

  13. @me @Em0nM4stodon It is worth reading about Pastor Niemöller. Until I did I naturally assumed that the person who penned that poem was an anti-Nazi pacifist Lutheran pastor. But his story is much more complicated than that.

    His life and progression in political opinions is worth a read. Maybe there IS hope for the MAGA faithful in that they can learn the error of (some) of their ways.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    #martinniemöller #solidarity #antifascism #epiphany

  14. @me @Em0nM4stodon It is worth reading about Pastor Niemöller. Until I did I naturally assumed that the person who penned that poem was an anti-Nazi pacifist Lutheran pastor. But his story is much more complicated than that.

    His life and progression in political opinions is worth a read. Maybe there IS hope for the MAGA faithful in that they can learn the error of (some) of their ways.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_N

    #martinniemöller #solidarity #antifascism #epiphany

  15. Nachdem es ein wenig gegärt hat und ich über ein passendes Zitat fiel, heute die Löffel für einen Blogpost zusammen gehabt. Nach Solidarität zu rufen, ist einfacher, als sie zu leben. Und alles, was rechts und autokratisch ist, nutzt diesen Umstand gern aus.
    #autokratie #democraticbackslide #rechtsextremismus #solidaritätstatthetze #solidarity #MartinNiemöller
    carmilladewinter.com/2025/07/2

  16. Nachdem es ein wenig gegärt hat und ich über ein passendes Zitat fiel, heute die Löffel für einen Blogpost zusammen gehabt. Nach Solidarität zu rufen, ist einfacher, als sie zu leben. Und alles, was rechts und autokratisch ist, nutzt diesen Umstand gern aus.
    #autokratie #democraticbackslide #rechtsextremismus #solidaritätstatthetze #solidarity #MartinNiemöller
    carmilladewinter.com/2025/07/2

  17. Nachdem es ein wenig gegärt hat und ich über ein passendes Zitat fiel, heute die Löffel für einen Blogpost zusammen gehabt. Nach Solidarität zu rufen, ist einfacher, als sie zu leben. Und alles, was rechts und autokratisch ist, nutzt diesen Umstand gern aus.
    #autokratie #democraticbackslide #rechtsextremismus #solidaritätstatthetze #solidarity #MartinNiemöller
    carmilladewinter.com/2025/07/2

  18. Nachdem es ein wenig gegärt hat und ich über ein passendes Zitat fiel, heute die Löffel für einen Blogpost zusammen gehabt. Nach Solidarität zu rufen, ist einfacher, als sie zu leben. Und alles, was rechts und autokratisch ist, nutzt diesen Umstand gern aus.
    #autokratie #democraticbackslide #rechtsextremismus #solidaritätstatthetze #solidarity #MartinNiemöller
    carmilladewinter.com/2025/07/2

  19. #Happy #pride , a very happy #pridemonth to all!

    Just make a happy pride year of it!

    And be happy - there is just no better way to make your opponents mad

    Rights were never claimed by begging but by fighting

    And they can be taken from you, if you are not ready for the fight

    The poem in the picture refers to #MartinNiemoller 's poem, he was in the #resistance against #fascism part of the #ConfessingChurch

    Fight for your rights!

    I wish all the best live & the best allies we all can imagine

  20. #Happy #pride , a very happy #pridemonth to all!

    Just make a happy pride year of it!

    And be happy - there is just no better way to make your opponents mad

    Rights were never claimed by begging but by fighting

    And they can be taken from you, if you are not ready for the fight

    The poem in the picture refers to #MartinNiemoller 's poem, he was in the #resistance against #fascism part of the #ConfessingChurch

    Fight for your rights!

    I wish all the best live & the best allies we all can imagine

  21. #Happy #pride , a very happy #pridemonth to all!

    Just make a happy pride year of it!

    And be happy - there is just no better way to make your opponents mad

    Rights were never claimed by begging but by fighting

    And they can be taken from you, if you are not ready for the fight

    The poem in the picture refers to #MartinNiemoller 's poem, he was in the #resistance against #fascism part of the #ConfessingChurch

    Fight for your rights!

    I wish all the best live & the best allies we all can imagine

  22. #Happy #pride , a very happy #pridemonth to all!

    Just make a happy pride year of it!

    And be happy - there is just no better way to make your opponents mad

    Rights were never claimed by begging but by fighting

    And they can be taken from you, if you are not ready for the fight

    The poem in the picture refers to #MartinNiemoller 's poem, he was in the #resistance against #fascism part of the #ConfessingChurch

    Fight for your rights!

    I wish all the best live & the best allies we all can imagine

  23. #Happy #pride , a very happy #pridemonth to all!

    Just make a happy pride year of it!

    And be happy - there is just no better way to make your opponents mad

    Rights were never claimed by begging but by fighting

    And they can be taken from you, if you are not ready for the fight

    The poem in the picture refers to #MartinNiemoller 's poem, he was in the #resistance against #fascism part of the #ConfessingChurch

    Fight for your rights!

    I wish all the best live & the best allies we all can imagine

  24. @avillavecesn

    PS

    #USpol 2025 vs. #DEpol 1933

    It is important to juxtapose #MahmoudKhalil's desperate wake-up-call letter to #Americans from his #ICE detention center in #Louisiana to save democracy, with a famous poem from #Nazi Germany by #MartinNiemöller: "#FirstTheyCame: "

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    👉ASK youself the question: why do I think that I'M not next in line?👈

  25. @avillavecesn

    PS

    #USpol 2025 vs. #DEpol 1933

    It is important to juxtapose #MahmoudKhalil's desperate wake-up-call letter to #Americans from his #ICE detention center in #Louisiana to save democracy, with a famous poem from #Nazi Germany by #MartinNiemöller: "#FirstTheyCame: "

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    👉ASK youself the question: why do I think that I'M not next in line?👈

  26. @avillavecesn

    PS

    #USpol 2025 vs. #DEpol 1933

    It is important to juxtapose #MahmoudKhalil's desperate wake-up-call letter to #Americans from his #ICE detention center in #Louisiana to save democracy, with a famous poem from #Nazi Germany by #MartinNiemöller: "#FirstTheyCame: "

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    👉ASK youself the question: why do I think that I'M not next in line?👈

  27. @avillavecesn

    PS

    #USpol 2025 vs. #DEpol 1933

    It is important to juxtapose #MahmoudKhalil's desperate wake-up-call letter to #Americans from his #ICE detention center in #Louisiana to save democracy, with a famous poem from #Nazi Germany by #MartinNiemöller: "#FirstTheyCame: "

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    👉ASK youself the question: why do I think that I'M not next in line?👈

  28. @avillavecesn

    PS

    #USpol 2025 vs. #DEpol 1933

    It is important to juxtapose #MahmoudKhalil's desperate wake-up-call letter to #Americans from his #ICE detention center in #Louisiana to save democracy, with a famous poem from #Nazi Germany by #MartinNiemöller: "#FirstTheyCame: "

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    👉ASK youself the question: why do I think that I'M not next in line?👈

  29. Many enthusiastically share pastor #MartinNiemöller's famous poem “I remained silent”, and there's no doubt they do so with the best of intentions, but I hesitate to praise #Niemöller.

    - Wishing to fight for his fatherland out of “Lutheran ethos”, he appealed to Hitler to serve as a submarine commander.
    - While he was later deported to KZ Sachsenhausen's “honourable bunker”, he also proudly embraced radical #antisemitism.
    - He only added the “When they came for the #Jews” line after 1945.

  30. @ned
    #USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

    That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

    "5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118

    The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

  31. CW: Holocaust Memorial Day

    Candle lit this evening and prayers said for Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget. Never again.

    #Jews #Jewish #HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust #Genocide #MartinNiemöller #LightInTheDarkness

  32. CW: Holocaust Memorial Day

    Candle lit this evening and prayers said for Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget. Never again.

    #Jews #Jewish #HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust #Genocide #MartinNiemöller #LightInTheDarkness

  33. CW: Holocaust Memorial Day

    Candle lit this evening and prayers said for Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget. Never again.

    #Jews #Jewish #HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust #Genocide #MartinNiemöller #LightInTheDarkness

  34. CW: Holocaust Memorial Day

    Candle lit this evening and prayers said for Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget. Never again.

    #Jews #Jewish #HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust #Genocide #MartinNiemöller #LightInTheDarkness

  35. CW: Holocaust Memorial Day

    Candle lit this evening and prayers said for Holocaust Memorial Day. Never forget. Never again.

    #Jews #Jewish #HolocaustMemorialDay #Holocaust #Genocide #MartinNiemöller #LightInTheDarkness

  36. #Holocaust #Nazi #History

    🔈 Audio Clip 🔈 about #MartinNiemoller "First they came for the..."

    He was a willing Nazi #Soldier but then rejected #Nazism on #Religious grounds (Church vs. State stuff) and later as a #Priest went around spreading how he his inaction or indifference spells doom for everyone and why things needed to be done differently now else it would ome back around to them... 🔁

    🔈 Original Source: 🔈
    encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content

    #MartinNiemoller + #FirstTheyCameFor #Speech / #Poem

    #German #Genocide of #Jews #Jewish #People

    #Sterilisation of #Diversity
    #Power #Greed #Fascism #Socialism #Capitalism

    4 Keywords / vocabulary related to #Niemoller and Genocide:

    ➡️ indifference
    ➡️ inaction
    ➡️ passivity
    = ➡️ complicity :nes_fire:

    Martin Niemoeller's is an example of people who supported the Nazis for a long while (LIKE SUPPORTING #CAPITALISM FOR SOME PEOPLE LET'S SAY AS MODERN TYPE OF #OPPRESSION)
    and then later *after actually meeting #Hitler allegedly) he flips to realise "no...." it's not the way ...

    #Church and #State are different and hostile #Hitler made it so clear at the time...

    Many #German people or people around the world didn't say a word and even killed against others (even worse dobbed Jewish people or reported #sympathizers (to let others kill them!).

    They themselves also might have perished which is maybe accordingly to the #StepByStep #method of which the outcome is the same when repeating the bad work and just finding new targets to suppress or blame. I

    A system of eating itself..
    People put against other people (as competition in business or other types of war / extraction / money-making fastest).

    - LINK 1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_th...

    - LINK2 (AUDIO VERSION) encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content

    TLDR = Niemöller's belief was that Germans had been complicit through their silence in the Nazi imprisonment, persecution, and murder of millions of people.

    This has a nice audio version of softer wiki-like page. I've put this on my Mastodon and maybe attached it if I remember. Excellent for people to hear often to stop encroaching criminalization of every single sector and type of person

    ==============================================
    PEOPLE CAN'T EXPECT GOVERNMENT TO CHANGE AT ALL OR BEG FOR LOVE FROM THEM CONSTANTLY !!!! IT'S THEIR SELF-GIVEN JOBS TO SCREW PEOPLE!
    ==============================================

    Political policies and campaigns are often based on taking away 'certain' freedoms and then slowly taking away all of them.

    #USPol #UKPol #ANYPol

    #Oppression of #Freedom
    #FirstTheyCameFor #MartinNiemoller

    #Politics is what is done to you basically - just a bit more 'diplomatically' so it causes less of a scene and instead do it step by step like that #Grandma #Game behind your back while at your at work, getting closer all the while to their ideal scenario from the start... Total control.

    Someone should literally plot all these changes to see how it's part of the same patterns and historically going towards the same crushing control / reducing of #community #people and #freespeech.

  37. The complete poem reads as follows.

    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

    #MartinNiemöller #FirstTheyCameFor

  38. CW: When It's Your Turn... What are you going to do?...

    #QUOTE #USPOL "...consider what they're likely to call your group if/when it becomes "your turn"... "

    from post: @riotmuffin ni.hil.ist/@riotmuffin/1141725
    #US #USA #Politics

    #WhatYouGonnaDoWhenTheComeForYou #WhenItsYourTurn

    Similar to #MartinNiemoller's "First they came for..." pictured below:
    (1892-1984) soldier, pastor in Germany - Church vs State - Nazi spying on him 8yrs Jail

  39. @ned
    #USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

    That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

    "5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118

    The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

  40. @ned
    #USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

    That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

    "5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118

    The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

  41. @ned
    #USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

    That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

    "5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118

    The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.

  42. @ned
    #USpol #Rascism #Fascism #History

    That has been the fascists' standard operating procedure ever since the #ThirdReich, as artfully described in #MartinNiemöller's poem #FirstTheyCame:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1109

    It is not original thinking, though. The great military strategist, #SunTzu postulated in his principle of #Subversion thousands of years ago:

    "5. SPREAD DISUNITY AND DiSPUTE AMONG THE CITIZENS;" (#TheArtOfWar).)

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1118

    The#NextCivilWar is already in full flight.