Don’t forget the “first they came” poem explicitly included communists because they were one of the “undesireables” who were exterminated by the Nazis. But it got changed to “socialists” because the U.S. didn’t want them to garner any sympathy. The US version is more well known but I think some European museums include the original
Don’t forget the “first they came” poem explicitly included communists because they were one of the “undesireables” who were exterminated by the Nazis. But it got changed to “socialists” because the U.S. didn’t want them to garner any sympathy. The US version is more well known but I think some European museums include the original
I thought it had both, first communists and then socialists.
The creator of it used "socialists" on like a single occasion where he said the poem, so of course that's the version of it used in the west.
Ahh that makes so much sense