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Martin Niemöller, the German pastor famous for the poem First they came…, is widely celebrated as a moral voice against Nazi silence, but his actual life tells a far more complicated story. He wasn’t a neutral bystander who regretted inaction—he was an enthusiastic supporter of German m
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