- a variation of Niemoeller.
Niemöller
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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While meant to be a warning that brutality, cruelty, and lawlessness extended toward some would not end with those first targeted, there have always been a few problems with the Niemöller poem.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
Adams was a member of the underground anti-Nazi Confessing Church in Germany led by the Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2022
And he goes on to quote First They Came …, one of the most famous poems about the Holocaust, by Pastor Martin Niemöller, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2020
The poem “First they came” by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, who wrote about the failure of the German people to stand up to Hitler, comes to mind:
From Washington Times ● Nov. 2, 2018
He then quoted the famous poem by Protestant pastor Martin Niemöller that begins, “First they came for the Socialists.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017
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