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Born in a town in Bavaria, Kissinger was among a group of German Jews who escaped the Nazis, then went back to Europe in the U.S. Army.
From a recent book on those Jewish GIs, I'd gotten a shorthand version of how the value of his linguistic and intellectual skills were discovered. He straightened me out.
"No, no, I was not assigned to cleaning latrines," Kissinger said. "I was a rifleman."
Except for the famous voice, it could have been a conversation in an American Legion Hall.
Reached at his office in New York, he explained that members of his company took turns cleaning latrines. The latrine cleaner also was responsible for the unit's situation map. Once, when he was doing double duty, a general happened to come by and ordered him to explain the map.
The general's follow-up question: "What are you doing in a rifle company?"
Shortly, Kissinger was re-assigned to the 84th Infantry Division, known as the "Railsplitters" for its roots in an Illinois unit in which Abe Lincoln is said to have served.
Kissinger recalled coming to the U.S. at 15, lacking a sense of national identity: Jews had become non-persons in Hitler's Germany. Serving with GIs from the Midwest made him feel American.
Decades later, some questioned his role in the Vietnam War and other U.S. policies. Yet his memories of his service in Germany are unsullied.
"I look back at those years with great pride," Kissinger said. "World War II was a war without any moral ambiguity."
-- Ron Grossman
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