填空题 Henry Kissinger was born in a small town, located {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}the south German province of Franconia, on May 27,1923. His father was a Professor at a local high school, his mother was a house-wife; the setting was typical German-middleclass. {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}the Kissingers were a Jewish family in Germany that was on the brink of Nazism. He and his younger brother were often beaten by anti-Semitic youngsters on their way to and {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}their school; finally they were expelled and {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}to attend an all-Jewish institution. Their father was forced to resign his professor-ship. After years of social torture, the family {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}to the United States in 1938.
In America, the Kissinger {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}lived in New York City, in a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan among thousands of other {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}and Austrian refugees. Henry Kissinger was never assimilated by the culture and society that made up America; in taste {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}style, he would always be distinctly European.
After four years in a New York City high school, {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}he had shown special {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}in mathematics, Kissinger began to study accounting at night sessions of the City University of New York, earning his tuition during the daytime. But then, in 1943, he was drafted by the US Army, an army which was at {{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}with the Axis Powers.
After the war, his friend Kraemer got him a job {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}an instructor in an Army training school that paid $10,000 a year. "That was real {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}power in 1946," Kraemer would remark later. But Kissinger was {{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}interested in that materialist lure; he felt he wanted {{U}} {{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}education of his own. And so he won a New York State scholarship, gave up his well-paying {{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}, and enrolled at Harvard in September 1946.
Since the Civil War, Harvard had carefully nurtured its pipeline to the nation's capital. In the postwar years, the Department of State was small and unsteady; in many situations, its first reflex was to turn {{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}} {{/U}}Harvard's area specialists. In late 1965, Kissinger {{U}} {{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}invited to Saigon to investigate American involvement in Vietnam. In the following decades he {{U}} {{U}} 19 {{/U}} {{/U}}a famous activist of political and diplomatic {{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}.