From wiki...
"
First they came …" is the poetic form of a 1946
post-war confessional
prose by the German
Lutheran pastor
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It is about the
silence of German
intellectuals and certain clergy—including, by his own admission, Niemöller himself—following the
Nazis'
rise to power and subsequent incremental
purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. It deals with themes of
persecution,
guilt,
repentance, and
personal responsibility.
and...
Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in
Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an
anti-Communist and supported
Adolf Hitler's rise to power. But when, after he came to power, Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in
Sachsenhausen and
Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the
Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after
World War II.
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I cite the above to point out, that man was an idiot. They Nazi came for the socialists, because they were also socialists... The Nazi's came for the trade unionists because the
Nationalsozialismus were also trade unionists.
Also from Wiki:
The German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) was a short-lived far-right political party established in Weimar Germany after World War I. It was the precursor of the Nazi Party, which was officially known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP). The DAP only lasted from 5 January 1919 until 24 February 1920.
and...
The
German Workers' Party (
German:
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,
DAP) was a short-lived
far-right political party established in
Weimar Germany after
World War I. It was the precursor of the
Nazi Party, which was officially known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (
German:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP). The DAP only lasted from 5 January 1919 until 24 February 1920.
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So the first two was controlled opposition, and the last was what happens when Satan's minions take power...
Also from Wiki: Nazis...
The full name of the party was
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (English: National Socialist German Workers' Party) and they officially used the acronym NSDAP. The term "Nazi" was in use before the rise of the NSDAP as a colloquial and derogatory word for a backwards farmer or
peasant, characterising an awkward and clumsy person, a
yokel. In this sense, the word
Nazi was a
hypocorism of the German male name
Igna(t)z (itself a variation of the name
Ignatius)—Igna(t)z being a common name at the time in
Bavaria, the area from which the NSDAP emerged.
[11][12]
In the 1920s, political opponents of the NSDAP in the German
labour movement seized on this. Using the earlier abbreviated term "Sozi" for
Sozialist (English: Socialist) as an example,
[13] they shortened the NSDAP's name,
Nationalsozialistische, to the dismissive "Nazi", in order to associate them with the derogatory use of the term mentioned above.
[14][12][15][16][17][18] The first use of the term "Nazi" by the National Socialists occurred in 1926 in a publication by
Joseph Goebbels called
Der Nazi-Sozi ["The Nazi-Sozi"]. In Goebbels' pamphlet, the word "Nazi" only appears when linked with the word "Sozi" as an abbreviation of "National Socialism".
[19]
After the NSDAP's rise to power in the 1930s, the use of the term "Nazi" by itself or in terms such as "
Nazi Germany", "
Nazi regime" and so on was popularised by German exiles outside the country, but not in Germany. From them, the term spread into other languages and it was eventually brought back into Germany after World War II.
[15] The NSDAP briefly adopted the designation "Nazi" in an attempt to
reappropriate the term, but it soon gave up this effort and generally avoided using the term while it was in power.
[15][16] In each case, the authors typically referred to themselves as "National Socialists" and their movement as "National Socialism", but never as "Nazis." A compendium of Hitler's conversations from 1941 through 1944 entitled
Hitler's Table Talk does not contain the word "Nazi" either.
[20] In speeches by
Hermann Göring, he never uses the term "Nazi."
[21] Hitler Youth leader
Melita Maschmann wrote a book about her experience entitled
Account Rendered.
[22] She did not refer to herself as a "Nazi", even though she was writing well after World War II. In 1933, 581 members of the National Socialist Party answered interview questions put to them by Professor
Theodore Abel from Columbia University. They similarly did not refer to themselves as "Nazis."
[23]
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Much the same is true today... The socialists have different factions claiming to be something different but, they are largely the same. They are the problem...
