Henry Kissinger, 11, is shown with his brother Walter, 10. When young Kissinger and his parents and his brother, all of whom would live well into their 90s, departed Germany a few months before the infamous Kristallnacht of November 1938, and arrived at New York on the famous liner SS Île de France, it would have been hard to imagine that he would return to Germany in just seven years. No one could possibly have imagined in Henry Kissinger’s early youth that the European state most accommodating of its Jewish population would a decade later be governed by a genocidally anti-Semitic and totalitarian dictatorship. It was as if he chose to send the world a centennial birthday greeting that he remains, as he has been for 70 years, an outstandingly lucid and perceptive authority on the strategic balances and constantly shifting correlation of forces between the major powers of the world. This past week he made headlines throughout the world with his reflections on the shifting geopolitical realities of Central Europe. One hundred years ago, Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in Furth, Germany. Kissinger is wrong: We can’t let Putin take territory in Ukraine Kiss off: Every president invites Henry Kissinger to the White House - except Biden Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turns 100īeware aggrieved would-be emperors - like Putin and Xi
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