Göttingen 2005
“I feel like an American and I feel like a German and I don’t think that’s a contradiction in terms.
Well - of course I have roots in both countries. And I’m a Jew too. But - there is no unified America and no unified Germany and no unified Judaism. There are, of course, a lot of things that I see positively in all of these identities and other things that I see very critically.
If you really want to know what my identity is, I say Georg Iggers. I think that’s the closest thing to my identity. Except that my identity as Georg Iggers has also changed over the course of my life. Because I see some things differently today than I did 50 or 60 years ago. "