The Kissinger saga : Walter and Henry Kissinger - two brothers from Fürth by Kurz, Evi instant download

The Kissinger saga : Walter and Henry Kissinger - two brothers from Fürth by Kurz, Evi instant download

ix, 229 pages : 23 cm, This is the story of two Americans of German-Jewish descent: one of them a key figure in Cold War diplomacy and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the other a top businessman - two lives which are exemplars of the American dream. When Henry was born in 1923 and Walter in 1924 the Kissingers had for decades been part of a flourishing Jewish midde class in Furth, a market town in northern Bavaria. Evi Kurz describes the gradual but remorseles destruction of this community in the 1930s; the Kissinger family's decision to flee to London and then New York in 1938; the war years in America; and the hugely successful careers in postwar America of both brothers, who always remembered their home and roots in a small German town, Includes index, How I looked for Henry and Walter -- The story of Heinz and Walter -- How I found Henry and Walter