Then They Came for Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis Matthew D. Hockenos
The title of Matthew Hockenos’s new biography comes from Pastor Niemöller’s iconic statement lamenting his earlier reluctance to stand up for various Nazi victim groups (trade unionists, socialists, Jews …) until there was no one left to support him when his turn came. His famous words, appearing in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-271 |
| Review of: | Then they came for me (New York : Basic Books, 2018) (Pawlikowski, John T.)
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| Summary: | The title of Matthew Hockenos’s new biography comes from Pastor Niemöller’s iconic statement lamenting his earlier reluctance to stand up for various Nazi victim groups (trade unionists, socialists, Jews …) until there was no one left to support him when his turn came. His famous words, appearing in the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and often employed as a rallying cry for various social justice groups, challenge scholars today, both with regard to the actual origins of the statement and in terms of Niemöller’s rather complex life., The version in rather standard use has not been found in any of Niemöller’s writings, though it accurately reflects several of his presentations in America. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz027 |