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Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923. He and his family escaped Nazi Germany in 1938, settling in the Washington Heights section of New York City. He went to George Washington High School and to City College of New York, before being drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served in military intelligence on the German front. After his release, Kissinger studied at Harvard and then joined its faculty in the Department of Government. After working as a foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaign of Nelson Rockefeller, he was appointed as National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon in 1969, and then he became Secretary of State, serving under Nixon and President Gerard Ford. In 1973, Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam.

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Henry A. Kissinger, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3558.