Didn’t think much of LGBTQ+ people either. Judging by the fact that they’re not mentioned at all in spite of being the ones that the Nazis ACTUALLY came for first.
Specifically he voted for the nazis up to 1933 and was imprisoned in 1938.
He was arrested for speaking out essentially against the racial form of anti-Semitism, having made anti-Semitic statements against the Jewish religion but drawing a distinction the Nazis did not.
Except the guy from the poem was a Nazi. That’s why he didn’t speak out, he wanted it to happen at the time.
Honestly, that makes him an even better cautionary tale. Autocratic movements will always eat themselves if allowed to live long enough.
This guy listens to Behind the Bastards
And then they literally came for him. So, of course, he volunteered to fight for them to get out of the not-those-kinds-of-concentration-camps.
And then by all appearances realized how badly he fucked up by the time he died
Yes, Niemöller wasn’t very fond of Jews, Slavs and Gypsies, but we’re not one of them so we’re not saying anything.
Didn’t think much of LGBTQ+ people either. Judging by the fact that they’re not mentioned at all in spite of being the ones that the Nazis ACTUALLY came for first.
Specifically he voted for the nazis up to 1933 and was imprisoned in 1938.
He was arrested for speaking out essentially against the racial form of anti-Semitism, having made anti-Semitic statements against the Jewish religion but drawing a distinction the Nazis did not.
He was literally the guy that was coming for them.