ManyRoads@lemmy.sdf.org to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoMartin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..."encyclopedia.ushmm.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoI don’t know why Niemöller omitted them, but in fact trans people were the first line in that iteration, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
minus-squareSidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agohe also omittet the victims of t4. the poem is supposed to communicate an idea, its not a full list of all victims of the nazis. Besides, i dont know wether niemöller even knew of transgender people.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours ago Besides, i dont know wether niemöller even knew of transgender people. That’s one reason why I didn’t speculate on the reason for the omission.
I don’t know why Niemöller omitted them, but in fact trans people were the first line in that iteration, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft#Nazi_era
he also omittet the victims of t4. the poem is supposed to communicate an idea, its not a full list of all victims of the nazis. Besides, i dont know wether niemöller even knew of transgender people.
That’s one reason why I didn’t speculate on the reason for the omission.