First They Came

First they came… - statement and provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller. This book is the 317^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 222^nd most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “First They Came” in English Wikipedia has 39.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 17 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “First They Came” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “First They Came”, its content was written by 441 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 950 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

First they came… is on the 222^nd place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 317^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 110 times in English Wikipedia and cited 216 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10562 in April 2018
• Global: #13130 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1643 in November 2016
• Global: #5001 in November 2016

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) First They Came		39.2269
2	Hungarian (hu) Először másokért jöttek…		30.338
3	Hebrew (he) לא השמעתי את קולי		29.875
4	Portuguese (pt) Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...		29.4278
5	Greek (el) Πρώτα ήρθαν...		27.758
6	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		27.7041
7	Croatian (hr) Prvo su došli...		27.5921
8	Basque (eu) Lehenbizi... etorri ziren		24.5878
9	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		24.0497
10	Ukrainian (uk) Коли вони прийшли…		23.9674

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "First They Came" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) First They Came		10 252 169
2	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		975 332
3	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		782 159
4	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		736 122
5	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		558 063
6	Spanish (es) Cuando los nazis vinieron por		484 934
7	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		412 219
8	Korean (ko) 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때		125 556
9	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		81 261
10	Swedish (sv) Först kom de ...		70 253

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "First They Came" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) First They Came		34 936
2	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		4 521
3	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		4 300
4	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		3 213
5	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		2 659
6	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		1 625
7	Polish (pl) Kiedy przyszli...		1 030
8	Hebrew (he) לא השמעתי את קולי		884
9	Portuguese (pt) Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...		629
10	Korean (ko) 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때		462

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "First They Came" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First They Came		441
2	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		83
3	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		56
4	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		48
5	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		36
6	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		36
7	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		33
8	Danish (da) Først kom de for at...		27
9	Norwegian (no) Likegyldighet		18
10	Spanish (es) Cuando los nazis vinieron por		17

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "First They Came" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First They Came		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Unue ili la judojn venigis		1
3	Arabic (ar) أولا جاءوا ...		0
4	Czech (cs) Když přišli nacisté		0
5	Danish (da) Først kom de for at...		0
6	Greek (el) Πρώτα ήρθαν...		0
7	Spanish (es) Cuando los nazis vinieron por		0
8	Basque (eu) Lehenbizi... etorri ziren		0
9	Persian (fa) اول آمدند ...		0
10	Finnish (fi) Ensin ne tulivat...		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "First They Came" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) First They Came		110
2	Norwegian (no) Likegyldighet		15
3	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		14
4	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		9
5	Korean (ko) 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때		8
6	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		8
7	Ukrainian (uk) Коли вони прийшли…		7
8	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		5
9	Greek (el) Πρώτα ήρθαν...		4
10	Esperanto (eo) Unue ili la judojn venigis		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أولا جاءوا ...
cs	Czech Když přišli nacisté
da	Danish Først kom de for at...
el	Greek Πρώτα ήρθαν...
en	English First They Came
eo	Esperanto Unue ili la judojn venigis
es	Spanish Cuando los nazis vinieron por
eu	Basque Lehenbizi... etorri ziren
fa	Persian اول آمدند ...
fi	Finnish Ensin ne tulivat...
fr	French Quand ils sont venus chercher...
he	Hebrew לא השמעתי את קולי
hr	Croatian Prvo su došli...
hu	Hungarian Először másokért jöttek…
hy	Armenian Սկզբում նրանք եկան...
id	Indonesian Mula-mula mereka menciduk...
it	Italian Prima vennero...
ja	Japanese 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき
ko	Korean 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때
nl	Dutch Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden
no	Norwegian Likegyldighet
pl	Polish Kiedy przyszli...
pt	Portuguese Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...
ru	Russian Когда они пришли…
sh	Serbo-Croatian Prvo su došli...
simple	Simple English First they came...
sk	Slovak Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten
sr	Serbian Prvo su došli...
sv	Swedish Först kom de ...
uk	Ukrainian Коли вони прийшли…
zh	Chinese 起初他們……

Best Rank

English: #1643 11.2016

Global: #5001 11.2016

Best Rank

English: #10562 04.2018

Global: #13130 02.2013

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