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Kissinger, On Stage And Off (New York Jewish Week)

Quoted: And at least one, Jeremi Suri, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, contends that Kissinger?s exile from Nazi Germany was central in shaping whatever decisions he made. You cannot understand Kissinger, Suri argues, without understanding his Jewish past. ?It was with him every day,? said Suri, referring to Kissinger?s escape from Germany to New York in 1938, when he was 15. ?How could it not be??