Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A Tribute to the German Resistance on the Aniversery of WWII Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 89 08:38:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of No Money, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lines: 52 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kriz@spica.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: > >To that I'd like to add: > >Martin Niemuller, one of the leaders of the Confessing Church (the independent >Lutheran Church) who proclaimed that "No Human Fuhrer Could Stand Himself Up >Above The Word of God." > >There weren't enough Niemullers, and Niemuller himself was the one who the >famous epitaph to the Nazi-era is attributed: > >"When they went after the Communists, > I did not stand up, I was not a Communist." >"When they went after the Jews, > I did not stand up, I was not Jewish" >"When they went after the Catholics, > I did not stand up, I was Protestant" >"When they went after me, > there was no one left to stand up." Also, Bonhoeffer (sp?) and Neimuller were jointly involved in an attempt to assinate Hitler long before the putsch in 1943. It was for that conspiracy that Bonhoeffer was hung. Also, my text of Neimuller's poem is as follows: In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the homosexuals, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a homosexual. Then they came for the catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me --- but by that time there was no one left to speak up. -- Pastor Martin Neimoller Allowing for differences in translation there is still a line missing in your version. Interesting. -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 292 0001 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!