AP
- Henry Kissinger died at his Connecticut home. He was 100.
- The controversial and polarizing statesman made choices in foreign policy that impact the US today.
- He started his life in Nazi Germany before his family fled to the United States.
Dr. Henry Kissinger, scholar and former US secretary of state, died at 100 at his home in Connecticut, Kissinger Associates, Inc. said in a statement Wednesday.
The statement did not provide a cause of death.
Kissinger was born in Germany in 1923, and his family fled the Nazi regime to America in 1938.
In his time as a US Secretary of State, he dramatically shifted US relations in the Cold War, in Vietnam, and in China, though his foreign policy approaches were just as heavily critiqued as they were lauded.