Georg Iggers in front of students of the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium Osnabrück, 2005
“There were four Jewish boys in the class. The distinction wasn’t between Jews and non-Jews, but between middle-class children and working-class children. The Jewish children were all middle-class. But there was no tension. Then things slowly started happening where I realized I didn’t quite belong to. The terrible hate propaganda on the radio; “The Stürmer”, a pornographic, anti-Semitic newspaper, was on display on Eppendorfer Landstraße. I was then confronted with this anti-Jewish hate propaganda, not at school, but in the school’s surroundings.”