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NIEMÖLLER, Martin.

From U-Boat to Concentration Camp.

The autobiography of … Vicar of Berlin-Dahlem. With his further story by The Dean of Chichester.

Publisher: William Hodge and Company, Limited, 1939

Stock code: 73531

Price: £50 Currency Conversion

First of this revised edition of Niemöller's autobiography, first published in English in 1936 as From U-Boat to Pulpit, with additional chapters by Arthur Stuart Duncan Jones, the Dean of Chichester, bringing the account down to Niemöller's incarceration. One of the most prominent anti-Nazi voices in Germany, Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau from 1938 to 1945. He is probably most widely known for his formulation "First they came for … " an eloquent indictment of inactivity in the face of evil.

Octavo. original green cloth, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. 2 plates. Very good in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, jacket, a little browned and a few chips and splits, but pictorially and textually complete.

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