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Walter Kissinger, Businessman and Brother of Henry, Dies at 96
Walter shed his Bavarian accent, while Henry notably did not. Asked why he lost his, Walter told interviewers, “Because I am the Kissinger who listens.”
Walter Kissinger, left, with his brother, Henry, in 2019. Walter wrote his undergraduate thesis on China, and two decades later Henry would help establish relations between China and the United States. Henry Kissinger said that he and his brother often discussed China and that “it would be hard to say who influenced whom in these conversations, but we had an impact on each other.”Credit.via Kissinger family