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亨利·基辛格1923年5月27日出生于德国南部弗兰考尼省的一个小城镇。他的父亲是当地一所高中的教师,母亲是一个家庭主妇。这是一个典型的德国中产阶级家庭。 But the Kissingers were a Jewish family in aGermany that was on the brink of[3] Nazism. Heand his younger brother were often beaten by anti-Semitic[4] youngsters on their way to and from theirschool; finally they were expelled and forced toattend an all-Jewish institution[5]. Their father wasforced to resign his professorship. After years ofsocial torture, the family emigrated to the UnitedStates in 1938. 当时,德国即将由纳粹主义主宰,而基辛格一家都是犹太人。他和弟弟往返学校途中经常遭到那些仇视犹太人的青年殴打。最后他们被学校除名,只得就读于一所专为犹太人开设的学校。父亲也被迫弃教辞职。历经多年的社会磨难,他们全家于1938年移居美国。 In America, the Kissinger family lived in NewYork City, in a neighborhood of Upper Manhattanamong thousands of other German and Austrianrefugees. Henry Kissinger was never assimilatediby the culture and society that made up America;in taste and style, he would always be distinctlyEuropean. 在美国,基辛格一家居住在纽约市上曼哈顿区、所在的地段还生活着成千上万来自德国和奥地利的难民。亨利·基辛格从未被美国特有的文化和社会所同化。显然,他依旧保持着欧洲人的情趣爱好和生活方式。 After four years in a New York City highschool, where he had shown special talent inmathematics, Kissinger began to study accountingat night sessions of the City University of NewYork, earning his tuition during the daytime. Butthen, in 1943, he was drafted[7] by the U. S.Army, an army which was at war with the AxisPowers[8]. 基辛格在纽约的一所高中求学的四年期间,对数学特别擅长;毕业后,他一边白天打工赚取学费,一边开始在纽约市立大学夜校学习会计学。但是后来,到了1943年,美国正与轴心国列强交战,他就应征入伍了。 After the war, his friend Kraemer got him ajob as an instructor in an Army training school thatpaid $ 10, 000 a year. "That was real purchasingpower in 1946, " Kraemer would remark later. ButKissinger was not interested in that materialistlure; he felt he wanted an education of his own.And so he won a New York State scholarship,gave up his well-paying job, and enrolled atHarvard in September 1946. 战后,他的朋友克雷沫介绍他去一所军事训练学校当教师,年薪一万美元。克雷沫后来老是这么说道:"说真的,1946年时,这笔薪水可是具有相当可观的购买力的。"但是,基辛格并未对这种物质上的引诱感兴趣,他感到他需要继续接受教育。因此,他放弃了薪金丰厚助工作,继而获得了纽约州的一份奖学金,于1946年就读于哈佛大学。 
自南北战争以来,哈佛大学一直精心育人,为首都输送人才。二次大战结束后的几年里,国务院规模不大,且常有人事变动,所以在许多情况下自然而然地首先求助于哈佛大学研究世界各地区的专家。1965年冬,基辛格应邀赴西贡调研美国在越南的事务。此后的数十年中,他成了一位著名的政治、外交事务活动家。
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