"First they took the Communists
but I didn't care
because I was not a communist.
Then they took the union workers
but I didn't care
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they took the Jews
but I didn't care
for I was not a Jew.
Finally, they took me.
But then nobody was left to care. "
Such is the famous poem of the German theologian and priest Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), written after he survived the Nazi darkness with the Holocaust and the concentration camp stay in Dachau.