@janetlogan @FishNamedDog @CharlotteEowyn

It's worse than you think I'm afraid.

Niemöller actively campaigned on behalf of the NSDAP during the election in which the Nazis took power. He described Hitler as "the man of providence" and claimed that voting for him was the only way to keep Germany christian and non-communist. Later, when Hitler was in power and it was too late, he turned against the Nazis.

After the war Niemöller claimed remorse and tried to rewrite history to make it seem as if he had always been antifascist. This largely worked: most people only know him as the man who did not speak out against Hitler, rather than the man who spoke out loudly and repeatedly in favour of Hitler.