Henry Kissinger holds papers under one arm as he looks out of a tall window with drapes on either side. Review

It’s (Still) Henry Kissinger’s World

A new documentary argues Nixon’s secretary of state learned the wrong lessons from his experiences with Nazi Germany. October 24, 2025, 2:00 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

In a new PBS biography of Henry Kissinger , viewers learn how growing up in an observant Jewish household in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s shaped the future secretary of state. Kissinger witnessed the Nazi regime’s rise to power as it imposed terror on large segments of society and fled to the United States in 1938 to escape persecution. He was horrified, Roham Alvandi, a history professor at the London School of Economics, says in the documentary,

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