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This poem is about the Holocaust, which took place in 1933-1945. It is talking about how the Nazi's captured all of these people and put them into concentration camps, where they would be forced to work and eventually killed.

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I think what this poem is trying to interpret is that, he regrets not speaking out for the others who got taken away by the Nazi’s, because now he is feeling what they were feeling when no one stood up for him when he was taken away. He didn’t stand up for the others being taken away, because at that point he wasn’t affected by them being taken away.

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Then they came for me

and there was no one left

to speak out for me.

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Then they came for the trade unionists

and I did not speak out

because I was not a trade unionist.

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Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Communist

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First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.