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Background of the poster is printed with a blue hued reproduction of a painting of a house with trees at left and a small garden or farm plot in the foreground. The poster is printed with text in white: "First they came for the / socialists, and I did not speak out / because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the / trade unionists, and I did not speak out / because I was not / a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, / and I did not speak out / because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me, / and there / was no one left / to speak for me. Pastor Martin Niem?ller / Though an Early supporter of the Nazis, German Protestant minister Martin Niem?ller (1892-1984) eventually led the church's opposition to Hitler. / He was interested in Nazi concentration camps from 1937-1945. In the 1950's and 60's Niem?ller was West Germany's foremost pacifist / and foe of nuclear armaments. / Prior to and during World War II, Hitler's genocidal Nazi party used variations on the triangle to identify citizens and / concentration camp prisoners according to religion, ideology, sexual preference and numerous other categories. / Some of the symbols were: / Yellow on Yellow (Star of David ): Jews / Pink Triangle: Homosexuals / Brown: Gypsies / Purple: Jehovah's Witnesses". Here there is a small yellow Star of David and an inverted pink triangle the text continues: Red: German Political Prisoners - Communists, Socialists / Black: Vagrants and Lesbians / Green: Habitual Criminals / Blue: Emigrants". The bottom of the poster has a band of light blue with text in blue relating to the painting reproduced on the poster and the artist who painted it.