"They came after the Jews, and I was not a Jew, so I did not object.

  They came after the Catholics, and I was not a Catholic, so I did not object.

  They came after the trade unionists,  and I was  not a trade unionists, so I did not object.

  Then they came after me and there was nobody left to object." 

Those were the words of Rev. Martin Niemoeller. They were his explanation of why he spoke out against the Nazis. He spent eight years in concentration camps for leading Protestant church opposition to Adolph Hitler.  The Nazis imprisoned him at Sachsenhausen in 1937 for criticizing the Third Reich.  He was freed from Dachau in 1945 by US troops.  He died at the age of 92 on March 6, 1984.