It’s possible that Niemoller is referring to Slavs or Eastern Europeans who were directly targeted for subjugation and elimination by Hitler unlike other areas, such as occupied France and Scandanavia where they enjoyed better treatment. The fact that Niemoller may have referred to Poles as Catholics indicate, ironically, an anti-Polish sentiment that exists in Germany to this day as well as Polish jokes in the states.

Many people are not aware that millions of Slavs were killed by Hitler perhaps because the first line of the poem, the communists, also were killing them. “Uncle Joe” Stalin, beloved by the left right up to the 1950’s, murdered over 80 million Slavic people’s. Didn’t hear much about that? Well of course not. Commies are the “Good guys”, the victims.

The communist agenda is quite simple: engage in class warfare. Bash one group and mass murder, er, “affirmative action” them while rewarding another. Then the recipients and turncoats (the capos) get all the goodies. Communists and Hitler had a lot in common and still do. It’s not any fundamentally different. Replace “Jew” for “white male” in Nazi and Democrat party literature respectively and there isn’t much difference.