Two weeks before the end of WW2, the Nazis murdered Rev. Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, a long-jailed Lutheran clergyman, internationally famous as a
humanitarian. This is something he wrote about his silence during the
long, intensifying vice-grip of Hitler and his henchmen:
"First
they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not
speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists,
but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me."
Thursday, August 15, 2013
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