Georg Iggers at the Municipal Archives Esslingen, 2004
“Yes, well, I think one felt outcast. But you didn’t know yet what would happen. I was here before the so-called Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht was two months after I left the home. And about a month after we left Germany. Of course, it depends on the age groups. So I can still remember very clearly the annexation of Austria (April 1938). Then, of course, the anti-Semitic legislation, the discrimination. So you could no longer go swimming, you could no longer go to the movies. Some stores had signs saying “Jews not wanted.” So that’s how we knew something. And I actually followed international politics through the newspaper. It was a bit one-sided, of course.”