Pastor Martin Niemoeller was born 1/14/1892. In 1937 he was arrested and confined to Dachau until 1945 as Hitler's "personal prisoner." While his arrest provided an "alibi" after 1937, he said there was no excuse for his failure to speak out effectively in earlier years.

Jan 14, 2019 · 7:50 PM UTC

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The time will come when virtually everyone will agree we have passed a terrible line. What alibi will we then claim for why we remained complicit? Niemoeller said that Jesus, through the Jews, had said "Are you prepared to save me?" But "Sadly, I turned that service down."
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