Object number:
2010.54.18743
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
untitled (Martin Niemoeller quote)
Date made:
LATE 20TH EARLY 21ST CENTURY
Material/Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 20 in, W: 16 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
Poster
Content description:
Poster printed on white paper with a green, yellow and red border. Green text down the length of the poster reads "in Germany they came first for / the Communists, and I didn't / speak up because I wasn't a / Communist. then they came / for the Jews, and I didn't speak / up because I wasn't a Jew. / then they came for the trade / unionists, and I didn't speak up / because I wasn't a trade / unionist. then they came for / the Catholics, and I didn't / speak up because I was a / Protestant. then they came for / me, and by that time no one / was left to speak up. / Martin Niemoeller".
Concepts:
text
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