Why do you think the Nazis came to power originally? They were effective killers of Communists in a Germany that was legitimately on the cusp of Communist revolution. Jewish peoples were of course among the highest in gross quantity of victims, and the main focus, but they also used that rhetoric to attack “judeo-bolshevism.” The poem goes “first they came for the Communists,” because the Communists were the most active anti-fascists and the largest threat to the Nazis.
Why do you think the Nazis came to power originally? They were effective killers of Communists in a Germany that was legitimately on the cusp of Communist revolution. Jewish peoples were of course among the highest in gross quantity of victims, and the main focus, but they also used that rhetoric to attack “judeo-bolshevism.” The poem goes “first they came for the Communists,” because the Communists were the most active anti-fascists and the largest threat to the Nazis.