Question: when it came to mind that i didn't care

title: First they came ...
text: Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt , Germany , in 1892 . Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Adolf Hitler 's rise to power at first . But when Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion , Niemöller became disillusioned . He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler . In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau . He was released in 1945 by the Allies . He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II . His statement , sometimes presented as a poem , is well - known , frequently quoted , and is a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy .