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Then They Came for Me

Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis

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By Matthew D Hockenos

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“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Communist . . . ”

Few today recognize the name Martin Niemör, though many know his famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemör’s evolution from a Nazi supporter to a determined opponent of Hitler, revealing him to be a more complicated figure than previously understood.

Born into a traditionalist Prussian family, Niemör welcomed Hitler’s rise to power as an opportunity for national rebirth. Yet when the regime attempted to seize control of the Protestant Church, he helped lead the opposition and was soon arrested. After spending the war in concentration camps, Niemör emerged a controversial figure: to his supporters he was a modern Luther, while his critics, including President Harry Truman, saw him as an unrepentant nationalist.

A nuanced portrait of courage in the face of evil, Then They Came for Me puts the question to us today: What would I have done?

On Sale
Sep 18, 2018
Page Count
336 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465097869

Matthew D Hockenos

About the Author

Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th-Century History at Skidmore College. The author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past, he lives in Round Lake, New York.

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