First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me.
and there was no one left
to speak for me.
- Pastor Martin Niemoller
Prior to World War II, Hitler's genocidal Nazi party developed a campaign known as the "Final Solution." This doctrine was an attempt to "cleanse" Germany and its European empire of unwanted influences, chiefly the Jewish people. The Nazis also targeted others based on religion, political ideology, and sexual orientation. By the end of World War II, The Nazis had succeeded in murdering over six million Jewish men, women, and children - fully two-thirds of the entire Jewish population of Europe.
