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	Who Was Martin Niemoller?
		Indeed, Martin Niemoller was an outspoken advocate for accepting the burden of collective guilt for WW II as a means of atonement for the suffering that the German nation (through the Nazis) had caused before and during WW II.
		Martin Niemoller was protected until 1937 by both the foreign press and influential friends in the up-scale Berlin suburb where he preached.
		Martin Niemoller died in Wiesbaden, West Germany on Mar 6, 1984, at the age of 92.
	www.hoboes.com /html/FireBlade/Politics/niemoller.shtml (921 words)

	nthposition online magazine: Martin Niemoller's famous statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Martin Niemoller died in 1984, aged 92, he was internationally known as an extraordinary personality in 20th-century Christianity.
		Niemoller habitually preached on this theme on the appointed day, introducing into his sermon such notions as that of the 'Wandering Jew', who has no home and cannot find peace.
		Last, and most tellingly, Niemoller was in prison on Kristallnacht, that November 9th day in 1938 when, among other appalling anti-Semitic acts, Stormtroopers set afire 119 synagogues, 91 Jews were killed, and more than 20,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
	www.nthposition.com /martinniemollersfamous.php?serif=1 (968 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Martin Niemoller
		Niemöller, Martin (1892-1984), German Lutheran pastor, whose anti-Nazi activities made him a symbolic figure in his church's struggle against Hitler.
		In a dramatic reversal of customary practice, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) took a moderate stance in international affairs in 1984, pursuing closer relations with the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) despite pressure from Soviet hard-liners to intensify the cold war.
		Martin (bird), common name for several birds of the same family as swallows.
	encarta.msn.com /Martin_Niemoller.html (155 words)

	Martin Niemoller - Communists, Socialists, Jews
		Martin Niemoller was a decorated u-boat captain in the First World War but subsequently became a minister of religion and a relatively high profile opponent of the Nazis as they increasingly gained firm hold of the reins to power in Germany.
		Niemoeller was active as a leader in a so-called Pastors' Emergency League and in a Synod that denounced the abuses of the dictatorship in the famous "Six Articles of Barmen." Such activities finally led to his arrest on 1 July 1937.
		Niemoller occasionally traveled internationally after the war and delivered many speeches and sermons in which he confessed of his own blindness and inaction in earlier years when the Nazi regime rounded up the communists, socialists, trade unionists, and, finally, the Jews.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /quotations/niemoller_jews_communists_socialists.html (549 words)

	Martin Niemoller and the Lessons for this Moment
		The author was Martin Niemöller, a German pastor imprisoned by Hitler from 1937 to 1945.
		The story of Martin Niemöller is itself fascinating and sheds more light on the meaning of the poem--then and now.
		It's worth a close look at the first line of Martin Niemöller's famous poem --"first they came for the communists." At the time of the rise of the Hitler, the German communists were the most implacable opposition to the Nazis.
	rwor.org /a/020/martin-niemoller-lessons.htm (1606 words)

	Christians against Nazis: the German Confessing Church - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Martin Niemoller played a major pan in gathering clergy and congregations of the Lutheran church into what came to be known as the 'Confessing Church'.
		To Niemoller, Germany seemed to be so humiliated by this that he felt he could no longer love his country or its people.
		In 1932 a trumped-up charge of treason was pinned on Niemoller in his role as a leader of the Confessing Church, but he escaped with only a light sentence.
	www.ctlibrary.com /4555 (2620 words)

	Memories of Martin Niemöller
		Certified that Pastor Niemöller, Martin, is attached to the USA High Command in Frankfurt AM., and is travelling to Berlin and return, on an official mission, and that every courtesy and facilities are to be given him on the way.
		In a suburb of Stuttgart, Martin stopped at the parsonage of a resistance pastor who had been released from prison.
		When we arrived in the rubble city, West Berlin, Martin did not go first to find his son, but to the home of Ludwig, Bartning, the architect who as chairman of the board of Jesus Christ Church had, resisted brutal Nazi pressures and had housed Else and the children in the Dahlem parsonage.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1393 (1994 words)

	Diplomas are useless for the apathetic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These eloquent words by Pastor Martin Niemoller are often quoted, but they still haven't lost their power.
		Niemoller knew the value of freedom of conscience, but he also knew freedom can only be exercised when individuals throw off their apathy and speak out against injustice.
		When Martin Niemoller wrote about the importance of standing up, he meant this committed advocacy, the type of "standing up that" could withstand pressures from others to be silent.
	www.alligator.org /edit/issues/96-sprg/960424/d2ami24.htm (902 words)

	Martin Niemoller -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Martin Friedrich Gustav Emil Niemöller prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, founder of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) and a president of the World Council of Churches.
		The Australian author Martin Boyd is best known for The Montforts, a novel noted for its robust and humorous characters.
		U.S. director Martin Ritt was known for the socially conscious themes of his films.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055786 (730 words)

	Martin Niemöller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 - March 6, 1984) was a German Lutheran pastor who was an opponent of Adolf Hitler.
		Martin Niemöller's famous quotation: "First they came for the Communists" What did Niemoeller really say?
		This page was last modified 23:35, 6 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Niem%F6ller (672 words)

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		From kriz@skat.usc.edu Tue Jul 3 06:13:17 1990 Newsgroups: soc.rights.human,alt.activism,soc.culture.german,talk.religion.misc Subject: "And then when they came for me..." a biography of Martin Niemoller First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
		Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me. by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945.
		In 1934, he was one of the leading organizers at the Barmen Synod, which produced the theological basis for the Confessing Church, which despite its persecution became an enduring symbol of GERMAN resistance to Hitler.
	www.mit.edu /afs/sipb.mit.edu/user/wdstarr/niemoller (832 words)

	Europe's Anti-Semitic Cancer has Returned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Referring to the way the Nazis succeeded in killing an estimated six million Jews and five million Christians in their concentration camps, Rev. Martin Niemoller in 1945 wrote, "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
		I was reminded of Pastor Niemoller in early July when there was a report of six teenagers who allegedly attacked a 23-year-old mother on a suburban Paris train.
		As Pastor Niemoller said, there will be no one left to speak out to save Jew and non-Jew alike if this evil is not confronted now and returned to the Pandora’s box where it belongs.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2004/caruba082404.htm (721 words)

	A PASTOR'S WARNING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		a preacher in Hitler's Germany who was frightened that he might be associated with the "wrong people." Martin* Niemoller was a supporter of the Nazis.
		Niemoller then became aware of the need to stop Hitler's Nazi movement, and started to speak out against them.
		This fear was driven by the fact the press might show him as supporting or associating with "extremists." Martin Niemoller spent seven years in concentration camps of Sachsenhauser and Dachau.
	www.freedomlaw.com /Germany.htm (212 words)

	Martin Niemöller
		Niemoller commanded a U-boat in the last war and, with his brother commanders, was responsible for the drowning of many unarmed British merchant seamen.
		The latter corruption of the text was never seen by Niemoller: he died before homosexual exhibitionism became a public spectacle.
		Of all the “lessons” of the Holocaust, Pastor Martin Niemoller’s litany of indifference, and of his own complicity in the escalating brutality of life in Nazi Germany is most used.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERniemoller.htm (4875 words)

	Untitled Document
		Among the primary participants in the Holocaust Memorial program this spring was Sibylle Niemoller, who spoke of her late husband, Pastor Martin Niemoller.
		Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object.” Nevertheless, Martin Niemoller and other ministers in the Confessing Church, which he founded, did in fact stand up to the Nazis on many issues during the 1930’s, protesting particularly their efforts to reconstruct Christianity along lines that reflected their ideology.
		Niemoller spoke of her own wartime experiences, notably her participation in an underground group that attempted to rescue Jews in Germany.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/history/newsletter_holocaust.htm (422 words)

	Martin Niemöller's visit to Dachau, excerpt from Legacies of Dachau
		Martin Niemöller, one of the founders of the Confessing Church, was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1938 to 1945.
		Niemöller was a highly decorated submarine officer in World War I. In the 1920s he became theologian, in 1931 an ordained minister.
		Although Dibelius' vague text was chosen as the basis, Niemöller argued successfully that the stronger statements in Asmussen's draft be included in the final version.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/projects/niem/niembkex.htm (1291 words)

	Paul Kuttner's Kindertransport Memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Perhaps the most prominent German anti-Nazi Protestant clergyman in the Third Reich, a man who also helped German Jews during the Nazi period, was Dr. Martin Niemoller.
		Niemoller had been arrested earlier in 1937 and fined 2000 marks for "Underhand attacks against the state," even spending a few months at that time already in a concentration camp.
		It was only after the Hohenzollernplatz church service, however, that Martin Niemoller ended up in Dachau and was liberated there eight years later.
	www.kindertransport.org /memkutt9.htm (379 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Out of the Night -- Apr. 22, 1946 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The ex-U-boat commander of World War I, Martin Niemoller, of Berlin's weathy, suburban Jesus Christus Church, seemed at times the last spark of Germany's all-but-extinguished soul.
		Last week the Confessional Synod elected Pastor Niemoller president of their church's newly formed executive council for the areas comprised by the old province of Hesse-Nassau.
		Said he: if Germany's 14,000 pastors had stood together to damn the Nazis in the beginning, they might all have been shot, but their deaths might have opened the eyes of the world and saved at least 35,000,000 lives.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,792802,00.html (251 words)

	Christian Resistance to the Nazi Regime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -because I was not a trade unionist.
		Pastor Martin Niemoller (left) was imprisoned in concentration camps during the war.
		Pastor Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and others formed the "Pastors Emergency League".
	hometown.aol.com /baronvanc/christia.htm (753 words)

	Niemöller, origin of famous quotation
		Ruth Zerner, "Martin Niemoeller, Activist as Bystander: the oft-quoted Reflection," in: Marvin Perry and Frederick Schweitzer (eds.), Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue (New York: Peter Lang, 1994), 327-340.
		Her main sources are a letter written by Sibylle A. Niemoeller von Sell (Martin's second wife) to Ingeborg Godenschweger, a staff member of the German Information Center in New York City, dated March 14, 1986.
		Even Pastor Martin Niemöller, who recently wrote to Adenauer that he opposes German participation in Western defense--his letter has been posted by the Communists all over the Soviet zone--was dubbed by these Frenchmen as 'a sincere pacifist,' and warmly applauded.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/marcuse/niem.htm (6049 words)

	Christian Century: Oral confession - statement credited to theologian Martin Niemoller - Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The saying attributed to Niemoller is so relevant, so telling and so well crafted that it is often quoted in books and speeches and reprinted on greeting cards and stitched samplers.
		In "Martin Niemoller, Activist as Bystander: The Oft-Quoted Reflection," Zerner calls the churchman's famous phrase about being a bystander instead of a responsible actor "the most frequently quoted and misquoted of [Niemoller's] statements."
		Zerner probes all the reports she can find of what Niemoller may have said (but never wrote) and, seconded by second wife and widow, Sibylle Niemoller, comes up with the following as the textus receptus.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n36_v111/ai_16003315 (445 words)

	Martin Niemoller: First they came for... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Martin Niemoller was a Protestant pastor and head of the anti-Nazi Confessing Church.
		Over the years many groups, feeling persecuted, have edited the words of the poem to apply to themselves and their causes.
		We've gathered the best of these, and though you might not agree that the level of persecution these groups suffer approaches that of Niemoller and his fellow prisoners, you'll more than likely appreciate their botched attempts at poetry.
	www.jesus21.com /poppydixon/poetry/niemoller.html (708 words)

	Fredsakademiet: Freds- og sikkerhedspolitisk Leksion N 43 : Niemöller, Martin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Modstander af den tyske revolution under og efter første verdenskrig.
		Martin Niemöller und sein Bekenntnis / udgivet af Schweizerischen Evangelischen Hilfwerk für die Bekennende Kirsche in Deutschland.
		Niemøller, Martin: Tysklands Skyld, Tysklands Haab og Tysklands Skam.
	www.fredsakademiet.dk /ordbog/nord/n43.htm (187 words)

	Office phones martin niemoller, office phones - NABJ : Front Page : Morgan inducted into NLGJA Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Please consider this before including your home phone number or other personal Pastor Martin Niemoller.
		Pastor Martin Niemoller,when arrested by the Nazi Gestapo in the late
		Martin Niemoller commonly used by gay and lesbian activists: Created the national office; Expanded its student projects to include a broadcast component
	office-phones.timesengine.com /?q=office-phones-martin-niemoller (268 words)

	Martin Niemoller - A Courageous Christian in a time of War
		Martin Niemoller - A Courageous Christian in a time of War
		In an era where selfishness, powerlessness, and the sense of separation from others are pandemic, and people use heavy-handed tactics to stifle dissent, it is useful to remember the words of Martin Niemoller, a Lutheran minister imprisoned by the Gestapo in Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.
		An outspoken pacifist and advocate for disarmament, these words are from one who said he “would rather burn his church to the ground, than to preach the Nazi trinity of ‘race, blood, and soil.’”
	blogs.salon.com /0003573/2004/09/04.html (231 words)

	Multiculturalism: The Horrifying Truth [My Title] [Free Republic]
		I take the liberty of forwarding this letter to you in the knowledge that you have in the past made priceless contributions to the well being of all the aspects of the entire South African community and that a person with your capabilities might be willing to make a contributions of any kind.
		I am of German decent and a man with educated sober thoughts and a relative of Pastor Martin Niemoller.
		When Pastor Martin Niemoller said during World War II, when they came for the Protestants, I didn't speak, When they came for the Jews, I didn't speak.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38ab3ee72d1b.htm (4282 words)

	Niemöller Quotation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Martin Niemoller was an outspoken advocate for accepting the burden of collective guilt for WW II as a means of atonement for the suffering that the German nation (through the Nazis) had caused before and during WW II.
		Something is missed if one doesn’t understand that the words come from a man who also declared that he “would rather burn his church to the ground, than to preach the Nazi trinity of ‘race, blood, and soil.’”
		Martin Niemoller was protected until 1937 by both the foreign press and influential fri
	dunamai.com /articles/general/quotation_from_niemoller.htm (2379 words)

	Martin Niemoller, travel guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Martin Niemöller, (1892-1984) was a First World War naval hero and Berlin pastor who became a leader of the Christian opposition to the Nazis.
		He was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from 1937-1941 at Hitler's pleasure and moved to Dachau in 1941 where he remained until 1945.
		He was the author of many books including From the U-Boat to the Pulpit (1934).
	www.christian-travelers-guides.com /hist/niemoeller.html (115 words)

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