![]() ![]() These and other details of Kissinger’s army service are recounted in Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist, the first of a projected two-volume biography.Īfter the war, Kissinger used the G.I. His unit crossed the Roer River in Operation Grenade in February 1945, then crossed the Rhine, and he subsequently performed counterintelligence work for which he earned the Bronze Star. Kissinger’s patriotism first manifested itself during the Second World War when he served with the 84 th Infantry Division of General William Simpson’s Ninth Army, and in November 1944 participated in the attack on Germany’s Siegfried Line. And above all, Henry Kissinger, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany (where at least 13 members of his extended family perished in the Holocaust) in 1938, has been an American patriot. ![]() He has been both a brilliant academic and a prudent policymaker, a theorist and a practitioner. Judging by recent books and articles he has written, Kissinger’s mind still functions at a very high level even as his body necessarily weakens. He has known power, riches, and tragedy during his long life. On May 27, God willing, Henry Kissinger will celebrate his 100 th birthday. ![]()
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