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Henry Kissinger (1923-2023) was born into a German Jewish family in 1923, fleeing to the United States to escape the Nazi threat in 1938. He served in the U.S.

Army during the Second World War and attended Harvard University on his return, subsequently becoming a professor there.

Kissinger’s academic work on foreign policy led him to advise various policy groups and politicians.

He finally attained office himself when President Nixon appointed him National Security Advisor and subsequently Secretary of State. He remained in charge of US foreign policy from 1969 until 1977.

This period saw the US take the lead in a range of foreign policy initiatives that were globally transformative, including rapprochement with China, the ending of the Vietnam War, and brokering peace in the Middle East in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.

In 1973 he was controversially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the North Vietnamese leader, Le Duc Tho (who refused it), for h