Pastor Martin Niemoller excerpts describe many different emotions and feelings. He portrays the indifference he had towards other ethnic groups when they faced
oppression in Germany. Then when it came time for himself to be added to
the list, there was no one left to speak up for him. Once everyone was claimed, he should've spoken up for those that weren't even him. What he stood to believe is when he should've had a say.
Pastor Niemoller
uses many rhetorical devices. One of them is anaphora. When he explains the phrase, "Then they came for..."; as he lists off
all the groups that were effected. These were people like the
communists, the Catholics, and more. Then, the list finally ends with
him. He made it seem regretful and ashamed of what hes done. His indifference is made
clear in his anaphora of the phrase, "I wasn't...", followed up by the
oppressed group.
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