Georg Gerson Iggers ( December 7 , 1926 – November 26 , 2017 ) was an American historian of modern Europe , historiography , and European intellectual history . Iggers was born in Hamburg , Germany , in 1926 . Being a German Jew he fled Germany with his family to the US in 1938 , only few weeks before the Kristallnacht . Iggers belonged to the young émigrés from the Third Reich who later in life , as academic scholars in the United States , had a decisive impact on reviewing critically the history of Germany
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