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May 27; 100 years ago today Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in Furth, Germany, and this past week he made headlines throughout the world with his reflections on the shifting geopolitical realities of Central Europe. 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. What an astonishing century he has had. 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.

When he and his parents and his brother, all of whom would live well into their 90’s, departed Germany a few months before the infamous Kristallnacht of November, 1938, and arrived in New York on the famous liner Ile de France, it would have been hard to imagine that he would return to Germany in just seven years and as a 22-year-old Sergeant in the United States Army would be the military governor of a town approximately as large as that, 200 miles away, where he was born. When he was in his late teens, working in a New York toothbrush factory and attending school at night, and struggling to master English, it would have challenged credulity to think that he would develop an extraordinarily fluent and sophisticated articulation in English, while retaining a German accent so pronounced that he sometimes sounds like one of the Marx brothers imitating Kaiser Wilhelm.

When he seriously launched his academic career, it would have been conceivable but hugely unlikely that within ten years he would achieve such an eminence in foreign policy matters as a lecturer and as an author, that he would have a substantial, if not universally approved, influence on the foreign and strategic policy of the greatest power in the world, where he had not long been resident. This was the impact of his seminal book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957), which suggested the development of median alternatives to the Eisenhower policy of massive retaliation. Improbable though it was that a young academic fugitive from the Nazis would have such an influence in the United States so soon, it was much more improbable that he would, 15 years later, play a decisive role in negotiating the greatest arms control agreement in the history of the world, that incidentally restored American nuclear superiority.

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1. This past week, Heinz Alfred Kissinger once again made headlines around the world.
2. On May 27, 2023, Kissinger turned 100, and he took the opportunity to share his reflections on the shifting political realities of Central Europe.
3. His 100 years on Earth have been amazing.
4. Of note, Henry Kissenger's early years were lived in Europe's most tolerant society. A society that in just a decade would turn into the most anti-semitic country in Europe. A country that would be ruled by a genocidal regime and a totalitarian dictator.
5. Kissinger, his brother and his parents left Germany just months before Kristallnacht in November 1938. 
6. Arriving in New York, Henry was soon working in a factory and going to school at night trying to master the English language. 
7. Just 7 years later, Kissinger would be back in Germany as a 22-year-old sergeant in the United States Army serving as a military governor in a town only 200 miles from where was born.
8. Clearly, as Kissinger ventured into an academic career a few years later, no one could have imagined that he would become one of the most articulate and skillful speakers on foreign policy and nuclear arms strategic thinking in the United States as well as in the Western world. 
9. Henry Kissinger went on to be one of the most influential speakers, writers and thinkers on behalf of the most powerful country in the world where he had not long been a resident. 
10. Furthermore his book, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy in 1957, led to his continued involvement in nuclear arms policy and ultimately to his negotiation of the greatest arms control agreement in the history of the world.
11. The agreement established American nuclear superiority. 
