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Georg G. Iggers, renowned historian and civil rights activist, has died at age 90

Georg G. Iggers, an internationally renowned historian and civil rights advocate, died Sunday in Canterbury Woods, Amherst, of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 90.

Mr. Iggers' experience of anti-Semitism as a child in Nazi Germany inspired his activism as an adult.

He laid the groundwork for the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in the 1950s and was a leader in local branches of the NAACP for more than 50 years.

During the Vietnam War, he counseled hundreds of conscientious objectors.

As a historian, he worked to overcome Cold War divisions in his profession by hosting conferences of East and West German historians at the University at Buffalo. Later, he worked for German-Jewish reconciliation. ...

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