Henry Kissinger liberated my grandfather’s concentration camp. He went on to oversee the mass murder of innocent civilians himself. His life was proof that firsthand experience of human atrocity does not lead one to eschew it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Lesson Henry Kissinger Took When He Liberated the Concentration Camp That Held My Grandfather

Among those who were rescued was my grandfather, who was likely hours away from death when Kissinger’s infantry arrived.

Excellent, devastating, essay.

AMAZING piece. It’s odd to me that the best person I have ever known had SUCH a similar biography to Kissinger but it was much worse in terms of how much early trauma he had. Fleeing Nazis, Harvard, PhD poli sci. It’s just ODD. Like how does one guy turn out so good and another guy turn out so bad?