Neimoller’s poem is a pessimistic, selfish, lazy person’s response to injustice. And the vast majority of non-Jews can’t even muster the energy to rise to that negligible request.
Neimuller’s statement was not a poem, but more of a mea culpa as he admitted to being antisemitic before, and at the start of the war, and preaching the same to his congregation.
Neimuller’s statement was not a poem, but more of a mea culpa as he admitted to being antisemitic before, and at the start of the war, and preaching the same to his congregation.
The madness of crowds is a recurring theme ...