Georg Iggers in front of students of the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium Osnabrück, 2005
“Then I was attacked once by four Hitler Youth boys. They threatened me with a knife and threw me down the stairs. Fortunately I was not seriously injured. These were not kids from school, but from the (Heath?). There are similar experiences, I’m thinking now of three people who described their childhood under the Nazis. As one was Reich-Ranicki, who went to high school in Berlin. Then Peter G(…), his name was Peter Fröhlich at the time, who also went to grammar school in Berlin, and then there was someone we know who graduated from high school in Göttingen in 1937. So very little happened to them in school, but this acquaintance from Göttingen was terribly beaten up, outside of school, he is now 85, and still suffers from the injuries that were inflicted on him. There was more and more anti-Semitism, official anti-Semitism, in 1935 there were the so-called Nuremberg Laws, so Jews were then expatriated. Life was made more and more difficult, economically. Lawyers were no longer allowed to have non-Jewish clients, Jewish doctors were no longer allowed to treat non-Jewish patients, the big businesses were simply taken away from Jews, they were “Aryanized”, they had to be sold at ridiculous prices, so more and more Jews were forced into unemployment..”