The ties that bound German left-wing intellectuals to Henry Kissinger

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The ties that bound German left-wing intellectuals to Henry Kissinger

In May 1944, a group of young German soldiers found themselves in the Crimea, surrounded by a rampant Red Army. Facing certain death, three of them could think of no other means of escape than to swim out to sea; two quickly died. The third, however, swam and swam and swam, for eight hours straight, until he was picked up by a German boat. His sheer self-belief was what saved him. It is tempting to see this incident as the origin story of the Wa…