In the 1930s, Hitler's Gestapo required pastors tosubmit church...

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    In the 1930s, Hitler's Gestapo required pastors to
    submit church sermons for official approval or
    they'd be put into a detention camp with Jews.

    Pastor Noimuller refused to obey the Gestapo
    and he was put into a concentration camp.
    Years later, when the Allies liberated the
    camp, Pastor Noimuller was more dead
    than alive but he gave his liberators a
    scarp of paper on which he'd written:

    First they came for the Jews, and I did
    not speak up because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for the communists
    and I did not speak up because I was
    not a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists
    and I did not speak up because I was
    not a trade unionist.

    When they came for me there was
    nobody left to speak up for me.

    A timely warning given the hate campaign
    against refugees that is being whipped up
    by the Murdoch media empire to increase
    newspaper sales and TV station ratings.
 
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