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On Tyranny

 In the Athenian Constitution Chapter 14-15 deal with Pisistratus seizures of power, his third attend become a tyrant, which mention by Herodotus (1.59-64), in Chapter 17-18 deal with death of one of the sons, Hipparchus by Harmodius and Aristognition, where Herodotus (V.55-61) and Thucydides mention ended the tyranny which had eccentricity since peculiarity of one person services to one person become the entrée. How the Demos evolved from just a kinship of tribes to set of rights and obligations creating a social contract in the city or Polis, not to Pericles and Solon the agreement become a formal.
While Europe—identity was forget by Christianity as political instrument of power by elite in the centre of this power—feed in Antisemitism, since the absolutism yield to the authority as a divined right the challenge Judaism claim divinity—the same for Islam, while the renaissance—rediscover did not affected to Kepler needed a new model explain Mars orbit, up to them the used epicentre Ptolemy for closed 2000 years the heavenly bodies can be predicted and British using carbon to produce a revolution—race needed, the Portuguese in Cave Verde created an industrial plantation based on Slaves, which Athens, Rome and Islam used from spoils of war or undesirable, but in Europe especially Anglo-Saxon created race as an instrument power—reflected in the economic, where the 19th nationalism transform the Antisemitism in to a racial antisemitism.
Athens demos only applied to 100,000 males where females and slaves would not be included (Freedman C, 1999. The Greek Achievement Viking), on the other hand the social contract of Rome Republic was contract between oligarchy and the people, where by representation, where the oligarchy where land owners in the Senate and assembly (Populous), (Christ K, 1984. The Romans University of California Press; Watts E J 2018, Mortal Republic How Rome Fell Into Tyranny), the later even the Roman Dictator was call First Citizen of Rome and the obligation was not to itself but Rome.
Mussolini with Fascist movement wanted to revived the dictator, only with the National Socialism in the German speaking in Europe elevated Nationalism to races and the outsiders where the Jews, the same argument from religious was expressed in Islam as Mufti of Jerusalem become force to created SS units in the Balkans which Genocide Slavic, Romani and Jews, eventually Mussolini said the objective was in the heart—race.
The convulsion in the US, by Nixon to create a permanent power based, while LBJ saw the consequence of race segregation willing to pay the alienation of the white in the US, Regan in the 80´s magnified as economics—where the white used as instrument to outsource the working class initially with NAFTA, then China, but the first economic convulsion of the 80´s ended with discussion to extended social benefices, by then Regan have privatise educational system to the banks where educational grants replace with bank loans guaranty by the federal taxes, the trickle down economy collapse in 2008 open the door of the first African American at the time white´s in the US did given a chance, which the first African American president delivered, but creating a social support over the Medical Privatization during Regan and the Bushes, for whites could not acceptance not one else could benefice, eventually a white supremacist president elected because his arrogance callous disregard of others during a real crises and let Italian door open who brought the  variant of SARS to the US killing more than 1 Million and used race to repress minorities.
Since Putin with delusions of being Czar, using the wealth of Carbon Economy influencing elections in US and Europe, in the case of US supporting the a white supremacist administration 45, himself try to black mail Ukraine to investigated his political opponent and after losing the election leading an insurrection, whereas today the Republican Party who fought the insurrection from South, to become one, at same time the new Russian Czar began genocide war against Ukraine, where middle east Saudi Prince committee murder and the Gulf Nations try to influences the elections by increasing the cost of oil.
The situation we are now as Ukraine shows need to fight back and despite of the Media whatever to show they are both sides, we are in the situation of the 1920´s and 30´s they are not two sides.

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The question of Antisemitism and race are intertwine, while Antisemitism rooting in Europe since 300 AD, but idea of other found early (Ganerod 2018, Dimensions of Yahwism in the Persian Period, De Gruyter; Israelowitz 2022, Temple and Mythologies, Gustav Landauer Press), where Elephantine Island in Egypt since 650 B.C.E, the Anat-Yahweh cult Temple burned twice, by the locals because jealousy and the Elephantine Island was consider to enter of the underground by Egyptians. But the Antisemitism was magnified when Constantine to fend the internal conflict of Rome introduce glue of Christianity—only in his death bead Constantine baptize, where fit with Rome idea of dictator become a God, where the Emperor was under God and only respond under God.

The fact Hebrews chosen by God created a conflict with the claims by Christianity, introducing in the Theodosia Code Vol16 under Adulterer (i.e. forcing yellow colour used to identify adulterer—hence the Jews), (Cohen 1994, Under Crescent & Cross The Jews in the Middle Age, Princeton Press Princeton Oxford; Israelowitz 2016, Historical Origin of Antisemitism Gustav Landuer Press), at the same time level Islam created a social hate against the Jews—due Judaism did not accepted self-described Prophet Mohammad, but since Jews where spread and Christians due had power—Islam created people of the book.

Slaves were used since antiquity using as war spoils and debtors. Islam introduce the spoil of war in 600´s A.D. and rationalization of pagan´s, but Portuguese created as economic model (Hugh 1997, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870   Simon & Schuster), with the Renaissance the influence of Christianity began to dwindle (Hale 1993, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance) a new justification needed, the other created in Christian and Islam Theology, a new connotation the used of race (Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism) as Justification of Europe/US Imperial ambitions, the used of ideas exposed by Galton Francis (i.e. cousin of Darwin) the pseudo-science of Eugenics which become the foundation for quota immigration to US in the 1900´s (Okrent 2019, The Guarded Gate Scribner).

The secularization of Europe—from Luther reformation magnified the Antisemitism by calling for a Jews Genocide (Weiss 1996, Ideology of Death Why the Holocaust Happen in Germany Elephant Paper Backs Ivan R Doe, Publishing Chicago) the 19^th century Nationalism taken root, the Autocratic Philosophy after Napoleon Defeat magnified, where Napoleon understood to construct his secular Empire needed to resolved the Jews question, form him while Christianity wanted to convert the Jews include—in the Middle Ages the Saturday Sermons in target Synagogues through Europe—later on the decree  in Russian Czar where force Jewish Children into Russian Army as 12 Years Old target for forced Christian conversions, for Napoleon the power of Church was based in the creation of the other, the Church needed the Jews to justified their Autocracy, which  Luther continue, after Napoleon a reactionary Axis between Austria, Prussia and Russia, where the first order was to bring the Jews under Ghetto Laws (Evans 2016, The Pursuit of Power Europe 1815-1914 Allen Lane Penguin Books).

The Antisemitism become the glue for Europe, the Nationalism of the 19^th century especially in Germany become his foundation (Weiss 2003, Politics of Hate Antisemitism, History, and the Holocaust in Modern Europe Ivan R Dee), while in the US race become the reason for expansion—the fact push of Spanish from Florida was the fact many run ways had free town in the Spanish territory in name of Europe Imperial—the US wanted to maintain the African Slave as institution, the same goes to Mexican Territory Texas where white illegal immigrants drifted to Mexican Territory of Texas since Mexico stop legal used Slaves, the white illegal immigrants revolt (Gibson 2019, El Norte The Epic Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America Atlantic Monthly Press New York), in US the economic foundation was based in this slave plantations, which produced not just cotton and tobacco but capital for the industry development (Baptism 2014, The Half Has Never Been Told Slavery and the Making of America Capitalism, Basic Books) on other words the wealth and development of US was built on the shoulder of African Americans slaves.

In Europe due to the defeat of the Germany Imperial desires Antisemitism take a dark, the used of Eugenics by the National Socialist for genocide anyone who was fit for the race (Lipton 1986, The Nazi Doctors Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide BasicBooks), including physical defects or not genetic fit, other hand the spirituality reviving pseudo pagan worships and mystical justification for Genocide (Goodrick-Clarke 2012, (reprint original production 2005) The Occult Roots of Nazism Tauris Parke Paperbacks), while the occult in Medieval included from Alchemy to invoking spirits many Jews produce Knowledge (Idle 2011, Kabbalah In Italy 1280-1510 A Survey  Yale Press), but the Oculists Helena Petrovna Blavatsky mixed with Antisemitism, note to say Prague was centre because Hapsburg Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II set Prague his center which included at the time Loew Yeudah ben Bezalael.

The Nationalism need the other and Justify Genocide, the used industrial scale used by Ottomans against Armenians, while US the used of race quotas to control immigration (PBS-Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein A History to be reckoned with the US And holocaust 2022), Germany Nazis used the Mississippi Racial Laws as the based for Racial Laws Nuremberg, where the Racial Laws in Mississippi were more restrictive one single blood of African Americans, the Nazis used percents (Friedläder 1997 The Years of Persecution Nazi Germany & the Jews 1933-1939; Evans 2005, The Third Reich in Power Allen Lane Penguin Books).

The anti-Semitic nationalism in Europe Italy where the root where the Nationalism transform into a Fascism with a pact with creating economic model where corporation and the worker a relationship where syndicated become subservient to the state—in case of Germany the race for Italy was ethnic group become the glue of the economic model—Jews as Italians become (five of original members), but with Italy, Japan part of axis, for Italy Race become the new Mantra (Bosword 2006, Mussolini's Italy Life Under the Dictator 1915-1945 Penguin Books)—Japan used Ethnic which does not stop to Genocide the Chinese. The same Ethnic Nationalism trend take place in France the French Fascist began deportation of Jews to death camps, while Lithuania they itself without need German Request—they destroy history (Katz 2010, Lithuanian Jewish Culture Balkos Lankos), the same pattern take place in Estonia (but they time due pact between Soviet Russian and Nazi Germany) the Soviets deported the Jews to the East and only few hundred left, the old which the Germans Genocide, where in Latvia become a death centre, which Latvia Fascist participated and initiated the Genocide (Lectures Editor Rabbi Menachen Barkaham 2006, Extermination of The Jews in Latvia 1941-1945 Riga 2008). In southern Europe Slovakia and Croatia participation especially Arabs in Palestine involvement with the SS in the Balkan Genocide (Montadel 2014, Islam and Nazi Germany´s war the Belkmap Press of Harvard University press) by design of Al-Hussyni amin Mufti of Jerusalem (a position created by the British in Palestine to give a voice to Religious Islam). Besides of the Genocide of Jews and since they consider the Slaves as subhuman, the used in Croatia under Ustaše their leader Ante Pavelić who was the head Croatia Fascist, which  ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade. Their emphasized the need for a racially pure Croatia and promoted genocide against Serbs and Jews and Roma using the Nazi racial theory. The Ustaše viewed the Bosniaks as Muslim Croats and as a result, Bosniaks were not persecuted on the basis of race.

In Slovakian under the Catholic Monsignor Jozef Tiso, Slovakia become a client state, where totalitarian state where the German pressure resulted in the adoption of many elements of German Nazism, but the main can be consider clerical fascism which Christian fascists focus passing laws and regulations that reflect their view of Authoritarian Christianity.

But a most tragic becomes the Jews in Hungary. Hungary and Rumania participants as allied to the axes, they were in the Russia front and many ways the Nazis using them in futile battles in the East. Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya head of the Hungarian, in 1919 he seize control of the Government and began the white terror targeting the Jews, since many leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic had Jews   like ibor Szamuely.

Béla Kun, the Republic's leader and instigator of the Terror, had a secular Jewish father and a mother who, despite converting to the Reformed Church of Hungary, was still seen as being a Jew, the Soviet Republic's policies were credited by some anti-communists as being part of a Judeo-Bolshevist conspiracy.

By the end of WWII Horthy saw the Germans losing the war try to make peace with the Allies the Germans Kidnapped his son Miklós Horthy Jr, with treat to his life forces the father to advocated being the head of the Hungarian State, taken his place was the leader of the Arrow Cross Party, Ferenc Szálasi (himself Armenian and German), the party support was based on the working class, subscribed to the Nazi ideology of master races which, in Szálasi's view, included the Hungarians and Germans, and also supported the concept of an order based on the power of the strongest – what Szálasi called a brutally realistic étatism.  Szálasi espousal of territorial claims under the banner of a Greater Hungary and Hungarian values (Hungarizmus) clashed with Nazi ambitions, delaying Hitler's endorsement of that party by several years.

During the spring and summer of 1944, more than 400,000 Jews were driven into centralised ghettos and then deported from the Hungarian countryside to death camps, with the enthusiastic assistance of the Hungarian Interior Ministry and its gendarmerie (the csendőrség), both of which had members closely linked to the Arrow Cross.

Budapest Jews were forced into Yellow Star Houses, approximately 2,000 single-building mini-ghettos identified by a yellow Star of David at the entrance. In August 1944, before deportations from Budapest began, Horthy used what remaining influence he had to stop them, and force the radical antisemites out of his government.

As the summer progressed, and with the Allied and Soviet armies closing in on central Europe, the ability of the Nazis to devote resources to Hungary's Jewish Solution waned, but they still carried out many massacres. Jews rounded up on the streets by Arrow Cross men, and their standard procedure was to take children away from their parents, then killing or beating any parent or child who protested. The Arrow Cross repeatedly organized mass murders next to the Danube, shooting people in the head, with the bodies falling into the river. To save bullets, their favourite method was to tie the waists of three people together with wire and shoot only the middle person, who would fall forward into the river drowning the other two as the weight of the copse dragged them to the bottom of the Danube. It has been estimated that during the autumn of 1944 there were no more than 4,000 members of the Arrow Cross in Budapest, yet despite this they were able to terrorize the city's population of a million.

Their methods eventually became too much, even for the German military whose commander General Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch ordered his troops not to take part in the killings. On the other hand the German envoy to Hungary Edmund Veesenmayer received orders from Berlin to provide as much assistance as he could to the Arrow Cross in killing of Jews.

 Szálasi became concerned about the impression that neutral diplomats were forming of his government and ordered that the killings be undertaken with more discretion. The country's national police commissioner Pál Hódosy concurred:

The problem is not that the Jews are being murdered... the trouble is the method. The bodies must be made to disappear, not put out on the streets.

This view was shared by parliamentarian Károlyl Maróthy who said :

We must not allow individual cases to create comparison for them... something must be done to stop the death rattle going on in the ditches day and night... the population must not be able to see them dying

Under three months, Arrow Cross squads killed as many as 38,000 Hungarian Jews. Arrow Cross officers helped Adolf Eichmann re-start deportations from which the Jews of Budapest had thus far been spared, sending some 80,000 Jews out of the city on slave labour details and many more straight to death camps, all Jewish males of conscription age were already serving as slave labour for the Hungarian Army's Forced Labour Battalions. Most died, including many who were murdered as they were returning home after the end of the fighting.

Red Army troops reached the outskirts of the city in December 1944, and the Battle of Budapest siege began. Arrow Cross members and the Germans conspired to destroy the Budapest ghetto. Days before fleeing, Arrow Cross Interior Minister Gábor Vajna ordered that streets and squares named for Jews be renamed.

As control of the city's institutions weakened, the Arrow Cross trained their guns on the most helpless possible targets including patients in the city's two Jewish hospitals on Maros Street and Bethlen Square, remaining women and children, and residents in the Jewish poorhouse on Alma Road. As order collapsed, Arrow Cross members continued their attacks on Jews so that the majority of Budapest's Jews were only saved by the heroic efforts of a handful of Jewish leaders and foreign diplomats Swedish Raoul Wallenberg (who was kill by the Soviets for helping the Jews), the Papal Nuncio Monsignor Angelo Rotta, Swiss Consul Carl Lutz (with Wallenberg created diplomatic housed saving more than 10,000 Jews), Spanish Consul Ángel Sanz Briz and the Italian cattle trader Giorgio Perlasca.

The Arrow Cross government effectively fell at the end of January 1945, when the Soviet Army took Pest and the Axis forces retreated across the Danube to Buda. Szálasi had escaped from Budapest on December 11, 1944 taking with him the Hungarian royal crown, while Arrow Cross members and German forces continued to fight a rear-guard action in the far west of Hungary until the end of the war in April 1945.

Victor Orban have revived the arrow cross and Putin have revived pagan pseudo-Slavic Mysticism based in mystical Delusions of Dugin in the same token the revival of the White Supremacist in US, Nixon used the fear of white losing their privilege by delegitimize the Jim Crow laws after South losing the Civil War in US, to protect the Plantation Privilege the separate (South Africa rules where such laws—a white minority control the majority), Regan use in Economics, based in trickle down, the whites can decide whom receive the support, by privatize Education, healthcare limited only to whites, the collapse of US Economic under Republicans where the speculation of Privatization, where taken advantage of ignorance and mythology of owning your house become the guaranty of borrowing against the property or ownership to group with no enough axes to capital, leaving a nation of defaults, open to the first Mixed Race African American President as respond the white losing their privilege, Putin set to bring into power the White Supremacist Regime into the US not since Jackson and Wilson. In losing 45 re-election, because killing of 600´s of his fellow citizens, due to his incompetence acts, with support of the Republican a insurrection against the system, where the Republican party objective become to maintain the privilege of  a white minority.

 

 

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Weiss in the Ideology of Death (1996, Elephant Paperbacks), trace the German Anti-Semitism which culminated with the Holocaust with competition between religions, following the Theodosian Code   (429-438) book 16 deal with other fates—regarding the Jews consider as heretics (Cohen, Under  Crescent & Cross, 1994, Princeton University Press), but more poignant where consider adulterous relationship—they force to identify with yellow strap, which identify adulterous, what for Islam the Jews rejection of Mohamad and Yemeni Jews fought him, in end out realization they were spread Islam consider people of the book, like Christian with caveat, while Islam used color to identify—Mameluke's in Egypt enforce Christian to have blue turban—since blue was consider bad fate and Yellow was act of lack of courage women and Jews (Hirch, 2020 Anthropology of the Middle East, doi.org/10.3167/ame.2020.150108 ). Weiss mention in case of Luther openly in his book Jews in his Lies, the book published 3 years before his death basically said if Jesus cannot change the Jews acceptance of him, he could not, his solution was call for Genocide, Luther other legacy was the Autocracy, his reformation by publishing the Bible in German—the interpretation was no more controlled by the Church since Latin was the language, new possible interpretations and peasants revolt his answer to the delighted the Aristocracy in Saxon and Prussia, he said to the lord their power was preordain by God and peasants by challenging Aristocracy, where challenging God, so they should force and terror—so they will know the will of God.

The theology absolutism was a social contract between the Roman Church and Roman Empire, Luther did no deviated, while Calvinist in the Swiss come from Humanistic Theology did accepted individual rights.

The despotic government reinforce by German Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg—Catherine II, to her Jews Subjects they cannot resident outside the Pale, the region inherent after Sweden Russian war.

The Antisemitism in Russia rooted in the Absolutism, the conflict between the three monotheists, was bout the God ownership, who in the name God will rule in absolute.

Napoleon created a secular Empire—to wrestle the power from the Autocracy—Napoleon two actions, first Autocracy control to defined if the other was person, by defined who can be consider identity—person, the Jews. They could not have any civil rights, by given the rights by born in location and naturalization, not by winsome of Aristocrats and second by recalling the Jews Sanhedrin (which many Jews did not wanted to participated out fear how Christians will react), after Napoleon defeat, then Prussia, Austrian and the Russian Czar created a reactionary Alliance (Evans, 2016 the Pursuit of Power Europe 1815-1914), their reactions become the seeds of the Conflict of WWI.  Prussia created Racial Nationalism to be the base of Empire, Austria racial Nationalism do not recognize equality to other Ethnic Groups culminated with the assassination on 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to Emperor Franz Joseph, visited Sarajevo. Russia Czar did lifted yoke of the peasants which servitude—as slaves. The British Monarchy approached from utilitarian. Slaves had been intuition used as economic of free work, Greece and Rome was built on the back of slaves, while for them the Slaves were bounty of War of the individuals could not pay debt where destine to permanent servitude, but 600 with the rise of Islam permitted slaves of no belonging of people of the Book Christian and Jews (i.e. while do not enforce), eventually with many conversions the run out of people, the solution Africa.

The used in the west of slave as economic institution, but Portuguese in Madeira and Sao Tome invented industrial sugar production using slaves, by them the enlightenment began to minimized religion a justification began the use color as race, the reality the wealth of the British Empire come from force of the Empire this case race—the house of Hannover carry to the British Autocracy and racism (Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism), while the capital of banks was profit from the sugar plantations in Caribbean (not only the British but French, Belgium, Dutch). The US industrial revolution capital to northern states in the US comes from the Southern Plantations (Baptism, 2014. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of America Capitalism).

The British accepted the reactionary Alliance for economic reasons such case of British Imperialism today the monarchy steal have:

On 29 March 1849, following the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the Kingdom of Punjab was formally annexed under the  Eastern Company rule, and the Last Treaty of Lahore was signed, the Article III of the treaty read:

The gem called the Koh-i-Noor, which was taken from Shah Sooja-ool-moolk by Maharajah Ranjeet Singh, shall be surrendered by the Maharajah of Lahore to the Queen of England

Like all autocratic did not ask just force to obtain. The consequence of Antisemitism and Race, become the element of National Socialism, Fascism in Italy, Franco Spain and Portugal the ideal of Race Empire (Weiss mention to Germany). The holocaust shows the logical conclusion of this ideology.

The conservative movements in process to conserved status hold to authoritarian as instrument of power, included to control women by controlling their bodies—case in point reversal of US abortion rights. Since the revival Nixon southern strategy consisted of acquired angry white man losing their privilege. Regan sold idea of trickle down economy to lifted any Government supervision, higher education was support of using of grants, to turn to loans where created permanent indebted class, new servants, part of the fairy tale by liberated economy for the cost, which eventually mean the industries were free to race to bottom, first to the border to Mexico and eventually China (while the Covid crises and Russia use energy as instrument of Imperial power demonstrated just in time to just in case). The same parallels Weiss mention economic crises in Germany, the alienation from Artisan class being dislocated by the big stores to find places for the grievances Antisemitism/Race hate toward the Jews and disdain toward ethnic groups by dehumanizing—since the rise of the White Supremacist by US president 45 and populism in US.

The desired of Putin to revived a Pan-Slavic besides expending 300 Million USD to forward their Agenda, by influencing the rise of 45 and populist movement in Europe, La Pen in France have direct loan from Putin, in Sweden, Denmark, and Netherlands. Putin autocracy and hate take in Ukraine, China imperialism desired to dominated Asia or the used Silk Road as manufacture political tool. While many populist movements in Europe trying to revived Racial Empire as solution grievance of the dislocation, while in 1800´s British Imperialism used mercantilism as power, eventually the colonies rebel and obtained independence given the cost, Ireland become a Republic and the religion tension in North have a conflict, where the Catholics become servitude to protestant, the British plantations in the Caribbean become the model for Ireland, South Africa to India.

The revival of the hate populism in US and Europe, we need to remember the cost of Six Million Jews, Romani, Political prisoners and any one with disabilities though the Euthanasia program. Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemölle as a national conservative, and openly supported the conservative opponents of the Weimar Republic, welcomed Hitler's accession to power in 1933, believing that it would bring a national revival, he opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph to Jewish converts to Lutheranism.

In 1936, he signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen which criticized Nazi policies mention in the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity. IN 1934, Niemöller joined other Lutheran and Protestant churchmen as Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in founding the Confessional Church, a Protestant group that opposed the Nazification of the German Protestant churches.

Niemöller never denied his own guilt in the time of the Nazi regime. In 1959, he was asked about his former attitude toward Jews by Alfred Wiener in a letter to Wiener, Niemöller stated that his eight-year imprisonment by the Nazis became the turning point in his life, after which he viewed things differently. He was one of the initiators of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt, signed by leading figures in the German Protestant churches. The document acknowledged that the churches had not done enough to resist the Nazis:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me