<P> Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a trade unionist . </P> <P> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Jew . </P> <P> Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me . </P> <P> Niemöller created multiple versions of the text during his career, but evidence identified by professor Harold Marcuse at the University of California Santa Barbara indicates that the Holocaust Memorial Museum version is inaccurate because Niemöller frequently used the word "communists" and not "socialists ." The substitution of "socialists" for "communists" is an effect of anti-communism, and most ubiquitous in the version that has proliferated in the USA . According to Marcuse, "Niemöller's original argument was premised on naming groups he and his audience would instinctively not care about...The omission of Communists in Washington, and of Jews in Germany, distorts that meaning and should be corrected ." </P>

Holocaust poem and then they came for me