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Getting Drafted Awakens Kissinger to Political Ambition
The 1943 draft steered Henry Kissinger from a shaving brush factory and night accounting courses to army service and elite training. In Europe he met Fritz Kraemer, who mentored him into leadership on a general staff and later into international studies that shaped his path to Harvard and a future White House role.
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Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger
International Relations
Harvard
Nixon
China
Soviet Union
City College of New York
North Carolina
Lafayette College
Easton
Army
Camp Clairborne
Fritz Kraemer
Kraemer
Henry
Pentagon
Buck
Europe
Krefeld
Margarete Drink
Jochen
Mensch
Jochen Wirichs
Mrs. Drink
Guido Rotthoff
Wirichs
Avenania Brewery
Alt Biec
Bergstrasse
European Command Intelligence School
Atlantic
America
United States
Hitler
Germany
The
White House