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...German city of F??rth, in Middle Franconia, few people remember the Kissingers. Before World War II, Henry Kissinger's father Louis, now 82 and living in Manhattan with his wife Paula, was a respected Studienrat, or high school teacher. The family enjoyed a middle-class life: a five-room flat, many books, a servant and a piano, which young Heinz avoided practicing whenever possible. He preferred soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Furth to the White House Basement | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...father did not have an easy time in New York. Unable to get a teaching post, he wound up working in an office. To this day, his heart is in F??rth. He has been back to visit twice, and two weeks ago wrote to the local newspaper to ask for clippings of stories about his son. Heinz, who soon became Henry, adapted much more easily. In Germany, he had been an average student. In Manhattan's George Washington High School, he became a straight-A pupil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Furth to the White House Basement | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...inescapable conclusion from these antipathetic attitudes is that thousands of voters want a spectacular leader, a "F??hrer," for their candidate. They desire and seek an egocentric, messianic individual, under whose banner they may exultantly follow in search of the more abundant life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...most observers believe Germany superior in warplanes. Despite a shortage of trained officers and a lack of materials, the Germany Army has become a formidable machine which could probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, F??hrer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...Deputy F??hrer Rudolf Hess helped write it. Imprisonment also gave Hitler time to perfect his tactics. Even before that time he got from his Communist opponents the idea of gangsterlike party storm troopers; after this the principle of the small cell groups of devoted party workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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