First They Came

First they came... - statement and provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller. This book is the 324^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 231^st most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “First They Came” in English Wikipedia has 38.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 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 2025 the article “First They Came” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “First They Came”, its content was written by 418 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 917 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

First they came... is on the 231^st place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 324^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 122 times in English Wikipedia and cited 255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #10564 in April 2018
• Global: #13134 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1634 in November 2016
• Global: #4974 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, 2025 (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		38.8139
2	Hebrew (he) לא השמעתי את קולי		31.4633
3	Hungarian (hu) Először másokért jöttek…		30.5554
4	Portuguese (pt) Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...		29.5631
5	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		27.7377
6	Croatian (hr) Prvo su došli...		27.5965
7	Greek (el) Πρώτα ήρθαν...		27.0628
8	Basque (eu) Lehenbizi... etorri ziren		24.581
9	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		24.1843
10	Ukrainian (uk) Коли вони прийшли…		24.1558

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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		9 543 839
2	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		878 984
3	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		717 875
4	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		673 205
5	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		531 754
6	Spanish (es) Primero se llevaron...		445 440
7	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		371 059
8	Korean (ko) 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때		121 816
9	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		74 644
10	Swedish (sv) Först kom de ...		63 967

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) First They Came		69 063
2	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		5 851
3	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		5 777
4	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		4 019
5	Spanish (es) Primero se llevaron...		3 721
6	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		3 134
7	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		2 288
8	Polish (pl) Kiedy przyszli...		1 271
9	Portuguese (pt) Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...		1 018
10	Hungarian (hu) Először másokért jöttek…		978

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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		418
2	Italian (it) Prima vennero...		80
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		47
5	French (fr) Quand ils sont venus chercher...		33
6	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		33
7	Dutch (nl) Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden		32
8	Norwegian (no) Likegyldighet		28
9	Danish (da) Først kom de for at...		27
10	Spanish (es) Primero se llevaron...		16

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) First They Came		2
2	Arabic (ar) أولا جاءوا ...		1
3	Polish (pl) Kiedy przyszli...		1
4	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		1
5	Czech (cs) Když přišli nacisté		0
6	Danish (da) Først kom de for at...		0
7	Greek (el) Πρώτα ήρθαν...		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Unue ili la judojn venigis		0
9	Spanish (es) Primero se llevaron...		0
10	Basque (eu) Lehenbizi... etorri ziren		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		122
2	Chinese (zh) 起初他們……		20
3	Norwegian (no) Likegyldighet		14
4	Russian (ru) Когда они пришли…		11
5	Ukrainian (uk) Коли вони прийшли…		10
6	Korean (ko) 나치가 그들을 덮쳤을 때		8
7	Spanish (es) Primero se llevaron...		7
8	Japanese (ja) 彼らが最初共産主義者を攻撃したとき		7
9	Portuguese (pt) Primeiro eles vieram buscar os...		5
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 Primero se llevaron...
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: #1634 11.2016

Global: #4974 11.2016

Best Rank

English: #10564 04.2018

Global: #13134 02.2013

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