Henry Kissinger - Secrets of a superpower | DW Documentary

For years, Henry Kissinger shaped US foreign policy like no other statesman. As National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under US President Richard Nixon, the German-born politician wielded America’s power with severity.
During his tenure as National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under US President Richard M. Nixon, the United States escalated attacks on the enemy Vietcong in the Vietnam War. In the years that followed, the conflict claimed the lives of another 100,000 Vietnamese and more than 25,000 American soldiers. The neighboring and neutral nation of Cambodia was also bombed by US planes in contravention of international law. Kissinger eventually negotiated an end to the Vietnam War in secret talks with North Vietnamese leader Lê Đức Thọ. Both men were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 (an honor accepted by Kissinger but refused by Lê Đức Thọ).
With regard to China, Kissinger was viewed as an architect of détente and a pioneer of rapprochement between Washington and Beijing, a process he paved the way for in secret trips to the Middle Kingdom. When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 with the Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel, Kissinger once again assumed the role of mediator and brought about a cessation of hostilities.
Kissinger’s tenure also witnessed the Chilean army’s coup d’état against President Salvador Allende, supported by the CIA with the full knowledge of the Secretary of State. Kissinger was also criticized for green lighting the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in violation of international law.
Although he left government in 1977, Henry Kissinger was one of the chief advisers to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Now a Harvard professor, Kissinger, who was born in the Bavarian city of Fürth, personally knew almost all the key statesmen and women of the second half of the 20th century and was a close friend of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
In 2007, documentary filmmaker Stephan Lamby had the opportunity to quiz Henry Kissinger on his political life and actions. The outcome was an extraordinary conversation about power and morals. The meticulously researched film also hears the views of many distinguished contemporary witnesses, including George W. Bush, Alexander Haig, James R. Schlesinger, Helmut Schmidt, Norman Mailer and Carl Bernstein. The film makes use of private Super 8 footage and secret wiretaps from the Oval Office providing some unusual insights into the White House of the 1970s. The secrets of superpower America, bombings, CIA operations, undercover missions to infiltrate enemy governments, the wiretapping of employees - all cast in a new light by the recollections of a man at the center of power: Henry Kissinger.
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[@MrDastardly]

Kissinger helped to prolong the Vietnam War and expand that conflict into neutral Cambodia; facilitated genocides in Cambodia, East Timor, and Bangladesh; accelerated civil wars in southern Africa; and supported coups and death squads throughout Latin America. He had the blood of at least 3 million people on his hands, according to his biographers. There are few people who have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.

[@Nighthawk-8050]

Agreed 👍

[@mmjey]

Agreed💯

[@protik007sbk]

True

[@mikthom8463]

Facts

[@ec3076]

Educate yourselves. 😅

[@why_so_serious]

Nobody will miss this guy

[@Itwontfitn]

Love this.

[@kiho4251]

Nobody knows ur existences

[@wernersunkel]

He was a evil monster

[@taylorlibby7642]

He had kids and grandkids. I'm no fan of the guy, but don't make yourself into a jackass in your hurry to performatively dehumanize him.

[@vratyasvakyas6022]

Except for warmongerers and Hilary Clinton types.

[@tasmimzify]

100 years of healthy and respected life of Kissinger proves that evil is not necessarily punished in this world but rather celebrated. That is utterly pathetic!

[@Boy_Gentle]

You have said it all. That’s the tragic reality

[@harveyspecter1855]

Oh don't you worry. Karma never forgets anyone. His legacy of being a bastar* will always be there.

[@josephevans3217]

sadly so true !

[@adamburling9551]

Evil in your eyes. All in the eye of thr beholder

[@raoharrisahmed2516]

Thats why in Islam they teach us that if you are a Sinner sometimes god gives you a longer life so you can repent and pay for your mistakes in this world. Otherwise it is eternal hellfire for them.

[@theobserver9131]

May all the pain that he caused find its home in his soul.

[@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993]

Joos don’t have those

[@yacine.3_2023]

RIP (Rest in Pain & Punishment)

[@rickyelvis3215]

@@yacine.3_2023 then that would be ripp

[@CarlosDanger600]

@@secretname4190So what if they don’t?

[@elenabistiu]

well, logically that one must have been the principal responsive for killing his people. but I don't think kissinger was a happy or accomplished human.those who are so selfish and profoundly unkind cannot be.

[@adamcraft9118]

I can’t believe this guy won the Nobel Peace Prize. 😹🤦‍♀️

[@brittalbach416]

adam craft: Obama did too so you know

[@adamcraft9118]

@@brittalbach416 oh I know. As have others who have done unspeakable things. But Kissinger was on a whole different level.

[@angeladee8789]

This documentary was definitely made in Australia by one of our local networks. Rights must have been bought to upload it under dw

[@adamcraft9118]

@@angeladee8789 why do you think that? DW definitely does this but I’m not sure I see the connection to Australia

[@fractalmadness9253]

He enabled the use of more explosives, so why not?

[@seanpidduck]

A tyrant, a war criminal, a terrible human being I would usually say may God has mercy on his soul but this man may actually be soulless

[@familieehrenfeld9123]

That is a thing, not a man and certainly not human. None of his kind are.

[@GrahamChapman]

I wouldn't say "may God have mercy on his soul" even if he did have one. How many people did he, himself, withhold mercy in regards towards? Millions. And so he should be condemned millions of times over.

[@dudebro3250]

This is classic far right wing antisemitism.

[@zzyzzy5466]

Hahaha.... that assumes what he all did was done under God's watch, and God didn't lift a finger to stop him.

[@hijazzains]

No he justs think everythibga riund him are soulless Goy

[@pheakdeypheun1602]

I’m Cambodian and never did I forget what he did to my country, Cambodia.

[@misunlee4817]

캄보디아는지뢰가많이묻혀있는나라..😢많은국민이 희생된나라다. 인간은 얼만큼 사람을죽여야 전쟁을안할까?이세상에 인간에탈을쓴악마는얼마든지있다.나쁜짓하고 종교에빌지마라 그리고항상 자기가슴에손을언고생각하라 나쁜짖하기전에 캄보디아에평화을❤🕊️❤✌️삼가고인에명복을빕나다…🥲

[@Caleb_Mandrake872]

Your country should not have allowed North Vietnam to travel through Cambodia & re-enter South Vietnam behind enemy lines. That's what caused Cambodia to be bombed.

[@roc7880]

how about the khmer rouge, did you forgive them?

[@mikehoare6093]

@@Caleb_Mandrake872 your country had no business in even being there to begin with !

[@manfromtheunderground]

​@@roc7880the khmer rouge came to power after the US bombed and destroyed every ounce of infrastructure in combodia. They were bombing rice farmers and their fields leading to food shortages. It was this power vacuum that lead to khmer rouge. The US has a history of destroying and destabilising countries and you seem really uneducated about all of this

[@honestgm]

winning a nobel peace prize for violence & terror is insane.

[@Iampa1chavan]

Sarcasm and Irony both committed suicide that day

[@richardkuklinski6537]

One of the most evil men has died at last.

[@the8419]

Why was he evil? What did he do?

[@aidanaldrich7795]

​@@the8419He was a warmonger who caused the needless death of thousands

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

​@@aidanaldrich7795 Three to four million in conservative estimate, as noted by Mehdi Hasan in a programme earlier this year.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@the8419 Because more than half of all American deaths in Vietnam -- and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese ones -- occurred after his boss Nixon was elected on a platform of ending the war: a great deal of the blame for the unnecessary continuation was Kissinger's doing.

[@faith4freedom76]

@TheDavidlloydjones And with this docu, gotta love how its All just thrown in ya face. They always throw it right in your face

[@JohnnyMac95]

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize" - Tom Lehrer

[@Tmb1112]

Ah yes. A singer who definitely knew the complexities of geopolitics and who you should be getting your opinions from. Nice

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

@@Tmb1112Credentials are irrelevant to the objective truth If an Austrian painter says 2+2 = 4, they are right. If a Phd mathematician says 2+2=3, they are wrong despite their credentials. Many such cases 🚬

[@jimmycricket5366]

... And Obama. 🙄

[@kreterakete]

Paranoia means to know all the facts. Sevard Burroughs.

[@AbdurRahim-ef1wi]

by killing His victims 3 million + vietnamese 2.5 million + cambodians 200,000+ laotians 3 million + bangladeshis 10,000+ indians 10,000+ pakistanis 15,000+ egyptians 3500+ syrians 6500+ cypriots 40,000+ chileans 30,000+ argentinians 10,000+ zimbabweans 60,000+ mozambiqueans 900,000+ angolans 11,000+ guinea bisseauans 300,000+ east timorians 1,000,000+ indonesians 20,000+ western saharans 1,100,000+ iraqis

[@truongtrandds]

The guy is the reason for my country's suffering. He had a legacy, a legacy of tyranny and inhumanity.

[@user-nf7bl7mb5q]

Same with Churchill

[@user-vo5wu1gy1c]

​@@user-nf7bl7mb5qExcuse me, I'm ignorant of what Churchill did, could you tell me what he did?

[@xychachiniyoyo]

@@user-vo5wu1gy1c Same speech I gonna say. but I read your....!!!

[@xychachiniyoyo]

@@user-nf7bl7mb5q Who was Churchill & what he did that you hate him ? I don't know him. I want to know his activities ( for that you hate him )

[@user-nf7bl7mb5q]

@@xychachiniyoyo LoL, you're joking right? Use Google

[@AliNadeem-hw5he]

After learning about him, I came to know about that good people will die and forgot easily but bad people will not die easily and will be remembered for decades.

[@Boy_Gentle]

Sad isn’t it?

[@Real_SkyRipper]

you must be so young to think that, grow up.

[@ugurozuysal9311]

Henry Kissinger is the greatest master of politics and diplomacy in the world after World War II. He is a very smart, intelligent and successful statesman. I admire his intelligence. I'm hurting but ı know he's in a better place. I wish he could live forever. He died two months ago but I'm still hurting.

[@AliNadeem-hw5he]

@@ugurozuysal9311 If he only use his intelligence and diplomacy on a right path.

[@XmontyVFXx]

This documentary leaves out a lot of war crimes

[@1968superfreak]

Did you really expect anything else from a propaganda channel like DW?

[@mikehoare6093]

@@1968superfreak well said, mate !

[@XmontyVFXx]

@@1968superfreak Powerful people everywhere look at HK and say “I can do whatever I want and get away with it, just look at Henry Kissinger”.

[@resnica3557]

Bush 43 and Bush 45!

[@idib1739]

They should make it a national holiday in Cambodia.❤

[@Asgoga]

As a Cambodian STFU up about Kissinger, no one fcking cares here about him only western liberals keep bringing up this shit like bunch of sheeps or the stupid quotes from Anthony Bourdain

[@roc7880]

oh, how about the 4 mils killed by the Khmer Rouge?

[@bevaconme]

and exactly what has that to do with kissinger's crimes?@@roc7880

[@eyeofthepyramid2596]

Sure lets make two holidays.

[@alessandrorona6205]

@@roc7880 if the Khmer Rouge too power was only thanks to what the US did. They weakened the country so much that the Khmer could rise to power.

[@ZhaoXina888]

"Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands." - Anthony Bourdain, 2001

[@wagnergroup2697]

when Kissinger talked about mao it seemed like he was talking about himself.

[@Temidayo-fu7xw]

What a guy. Evil reeks around him

[@tareen957]

After all he is a jew

[@familieehrenfeld9123]

​​@@debed5177I do believe that.He is beyond evil. You cannot find vocab for him or his kind/ilk.

[@faniarethas2716]

@@tareen957 Real Jews don’t do this only Nazi Zionists

[@ahmd2981]

رائحته النتنه تزكرنا بشارون

[@bevaconme]

i'd like you to explain that to me.@@tareen957

[@williamheaton7958]

War criminals should NOT be celebrated.

[@MD-ew1xg]

This is humanity's Christmas gift to the world.

[@kc10man]

Side note, I was at CSIS when Kissinger still had an office there. He didn't do much in the way of attending meetings,. He read a lot of newspapers and talk/influence people around him. Still could speed dial anyone I guess. I went to as many meetings as I could, both because it was interesting and also for the free food.

[@abrahamsneo7783]

Beloved grandpa, father, husband and war criminal. 1923-2023

[@PilliamWilliam]

As i sit here, in the cold european winter, i take solace knowing that kissinger is looking up at us, nice and warm...

[@brittalbach416]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@174trek]

Lol 😂

[@huberto989]

crispy like bacon

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

Doomed in hell

[@notamoonraker]

That's for him enabling China become superpower.. and letting China-backed Khmer Rouge freely did whatever it wanted in Cambodia, all of that just because Kissinger wanted to annoy Soviet Union.

[@arawiri]

I can believe he won the noble peace prize.

[@user-nf7bl7mb5q]

So did Churchill 😢

[@PRubin-rh4sr]

Hitler would have gotten it too if he won WW2

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

He probably bought it

[@laurab9867]

Check your spelling... The word is ""cannot.""

[@josephevans3217]

Makes a joke of the Nobel peace award

[@shilpa3032]

All the consequences of his leadership, we are facing today. How can this man be given Nobel prize

[@shahaman5694]

What consequences exactly are you talking about? Be specific

[@shilpa3032]

@@shahaman5694 dependence on china has been the biggest mistake

[@soylentgreenb]

The millions of dead in Vietnam and Cambodia due to his wish to save face. The loss of face the US has suffered because of this clown. Putin attempting the same playbook. The guy wasn’t only morally bankrupt; he was supremely incompetent.

[@Soviiet_union]

Poor people are gonna be happy by now.. but rich & politicians will miss him .

[@user-fy9ss8ig9m]

They won’t miss him there all sick n twisted… n evil. They probably piss on his body

[@user-fy9ss8ig9m]

As a ritual

[@sharifulislam6773]

😂😂😂

[@jerodwolf5582]

The unfortunate truth is that he inspired the monsters in Congress, like how we had wasted 20 years in Afghanistan because we wanted to essentially 'cleanse' the population of terrorists. Evil breeds evil, and America will continue to exert dominance over the weak and innocent

[@louisgonzalez8846]

In particular......the arms dealers.°°°

[@mikeb5981]

If any regular citizens did any of this they would be charged and locked up in a heart beat

[@Henry-yf2np]

He wasn’t a citizen so your comment is pointless

[@amjedabdu4238]

​@@Henry-yf2npwhat?

[@CowToes]

​@@Henry-yf2npwhat?

[@Henry-yf2np]

@@CowToes He was a political figure that’s how he authorized all of this. A citizen can’t do that so the comment is pointless. Use your head

[@dimitrisdimitriou4747]

​@@Henry-yf2npthat is what the comment is saying. He is saying that BECAUSE Kissinger was a political figure he wasnt charged with anything. Use your head

[@herrdavidw]

A politician without being a politician, we call these people weasel. See how whenever he's confronted by the interviewer in the doco about every action he always replied in a very similar way, "I did not give the orders, I just advised."

[@MA-nm2tv]

Passing the buck...

[@VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH]

WASN’T that what all the Germans on trial at NUREMBERG SAID TOO?😢

[@louisgonzalez8846]

He gave.........WRONG ADVISE.!!!!!

[@maynardcapellan1969]

This Man Belongs to Junkyard of History...

[@Kim-mz8co]

The spittle on his lower lip dribbling down his chin during this interview is how I wish to remember him. If evil had a face, his picture would be right there by the dictionary definition. Best wishes from Cambodia.

[@richardmann3396]

I thought the same thing when I noticed the spittle.

[@adamburling9551]

Yeah ok

[@gtas321]

Evil in it's purest form and yet he is celebrated.

[@williamtell5365]

I'm a US citizen, happen to live in Vietnam now and my wife's family is from the North though otherwise I have no attachment to the old American war. Still, I despise Kissinger. He was indeed a war criminal, and massively overrated as a thinker as well.

[@mandarinandthetenrings2201]

I think your buying into the propaganda. Henry Kissinger was National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. I doubt he had the kind a of power and influence that you giving him. Why, the President he served was Richard Nixon. He was not one for sharing power. Now he was the mouth peace of the administration and was also the lightening rod. But it President Nixon not Kissinger that you need to take a hard look at.

[@robertthornton5790]

I'm a US citizen, living Cambodia with 8 yo Son and wife. She is from a province which was close to the bombing, however, she wasn't born yet. Her grandmother remembers.

[@Bugermanchi]

He’s so underhated . I wish he was more popular with knowing that he is hated by everyone and everyone clearly remember as a monster

[@user-nf7bl7mb5q]

Oh let these countries also comment about Americans Iraq Iran Afghanistan Nicaragua Cambodia Chile Argentina Brazil Mexico Cuba Venezuela ..... Shall we go to Africa next? Congo DRC Zimbabwe Liberia Togo Gabon Congo Brazzaville Somalia Sudan Libya Egypt Sorry I missed a few...

[@alexammohostianos5631]

don't forger CYPRUS and GREECE ... @@user-nf7bl7mb5q

[@JML6988]

His statement at the very end of this video can be summed up thusly: one cannot know one's limitations without experiencing failure first.

[@ceocentralspots.r.o.9563]

Excellent documentary!

[@manofculture9051]

he was a monster

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

A war criminal who escaped justice

[@agentchaos3947]

Justice is only dished out to the weak. The only war criminals who face the music are those who lose the war.

[@jameswatson7409]

Nobody escapes justice. You will be judged in the end. He's being judged now. And I'm sure God isn't too happy with him.

[@user-ht6ii1yj2i]

Like most of his wicked race in positions of power! Smh

[@HarpsichordVinylGallery]

@@jameswatson7409 That is hardly a comfort to hear when you don't believe in a God. If a God exists, he should have prevented the grief and harm of so many innocent people in the first place.

[@dudebro3250]

This is antisemitic far right hate speech. Escaped justice?

[@Sir_Typesalot]

„A bully, a thug and a coldblooded murderer.“ - Christopher Hitchens

[@MinhNguyen-br1vo]

Ronny Cheng: "Do you know how good a war criminal you have to be to win the peace prize for wars you escalated?"

[@emilycat8324]

A despicable human being if you could even call him that.

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Oh he was definitely a human being, no other animal is as evil as our species. In fact all others species are incapable of being evil.

[@emilycat8324]

@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen Touché!

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

I rather be a dog than one of the most despicable species that has ever existed, no dog behaves as revoltingly as we do. @@notamoonraker

[@adamburling9551]

He did what he had to do

[@MariaNI-yf1bz]

A "memorial" for a narcissist, a mass murderer. This is why this world is effing"d up.

[@taylorlibby7642]

You don't have to like him to recognize that he was a major figure in international politics for a long stretch of time. Doesn't seem out of line for them to recognize that imo.

[@jatin9070]

​@@taylorlibby7642Christmas celebration has come a little too early due to his death.

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@QuietlyHere666 Not really. And what good does your hatred do for anyone? For you? What good has it ever done? He's dead and gone and long past being hurt or even slightly incovenienced by your celebratory ghoulishness at the death of another human being. The only person your hatred is going to hurt is you.

[@taylorlibby7642]

@@jatin9070You can't hurt him with your celebratory glee at his death. The only person you'll hurt is yourself. Why would you want to let someone you despise live rent free in your head like that after they're dead and gone and can't affect you anymore unless you let them?

[@redneck1608]

@@taylorlibby7642 Noone is denying that, I do not know how you come to that conclusion.That does not mean you need to honor him in memory. Hitler was a big international figure too, would you honor him as well?

[@costaskarseras7876]

I do not like to criticize recently deceased individuals. However, Henry Kissinger was not an ordinary human being. His influence and actions resulted in the deaths and suffering of countless innocent people. His legacy will continue to cast a long shadow, particularly in the rice paddies of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, where chemical weapons and millions of cluster bombs were used during his tenure. When Henry Kissinger accepted the 1973 Peace Prize awarded to him, the North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho refused it, upholding the dignity of the Vietnamese people. Kissinger's memo following Argentina's bloody coup in 1976, which encouraged the support of military dictators, reaffirmed the US policy towards Latin America. The CIA was destabilizing the entire region for ages and not only by overthrowing the democratically elected Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende but also by imposing blood-thirsty regimes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other countries. Our small island did not escape Kissinger's machinations and ruthlessness, which contributed to the partition and Turkish occupation. Former US President Bill Clinton later apologized to the Greek people for supporting the military junta. Kissinger seemed to relish using his exceptional intellectual abilities to play the role of master of the universe. It is a shame that he did not use his gifts for the betterment of humanity.

[@louisgonzalez8846]

Well said costaskarseras.!!!!

[@ondinehd6889]

"...exceptional intellectual abilities???" He was short-sighted, and had no vision.

[@adamburling9551]

When one votes for a politician it's also a responsibility I'd assume. They expect that a superpower rises at all costs.

[@adamburling9551]

​​​​​@@ondinehd6889 He was highly intelligent. You nor anyone would've known what to do either. It's easy to sit back and criticize. He wasn't perfect and probably lacked empathy. Nonthless.

[@alannguyen2415]

There is no justice in this world. 😢

[@Real_SkyRipper]

cry me a river lmao

[@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou]

jesus and god's kindom are not in this world ....

[@Real_SkyRipper]

@@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou they don't exist so yeah they sure aren't in this world.

[@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou]

@@Real_SkyRipper you haven't been there, so there's no way you can really confirm that ... nice try tho

[@tyronegreen6165]

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[@LB-oj1kr]

Even just hearing his name gives me chills to the bone. 🥶🥶🥶

[@houseofvenusMD]

He really looks the part of a villain too 😅 from the name to the creepy smile

[@faniarethas2716]

And his face. That’s why I can’t continue to see this documentary! Pfff

[@johnkingbad]

@@houseofvenusMD He looks and sounds like Emperor Palpatine

[@tearsinpain]

What Kissinger said to Nixon "History will judge you better after" , is exactly the opposite History will judge them even worse than their contemporaries because at least I hope in the future we have more moral and less Amoral men in power. And if there is a god/deus I hope Kissinger has all the recompenses he deserves in the afterlife.

[@mandarinandthetenrings2201]

I think your giving Henry Kissinger way to much credit, and power. I've studied President Nixon very closely. It was President Nixon that saw that North Vietnamese were using American POW's as human shields on Ho Chin Min trail and said "if they think that I won't bomb it, they are dealing with wrong son of bitch!".

[@joaosampaio4039]

You cant have those kind of man in a system that encourages Fraud, corruption, exploitation... You have to change the system to change the men.

[@wlpta6786]

If Malevolence was a person, HK would be the poster boy

[@BCSTS]

Very thorough & well done.....does not change my mind about Nixon or Kissinger.....but this doc has shed much light on the situations & the thinkingof this monstrous man, Henry Kissinger.....It also is yet another example of how power corrupts.....presidents, governments, foreign policy and in this case Henry Kissinger, CIA, NS, and Richard Nixon! I grew up in the 50's, 60's, '70's ....Thank you for your high quality documentary.....I now know much more about Kissinger !

[@erichvonmolder9310]

Ask Chomsky how great a guy Kissinger was? It wasn't just in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia either, look at Central and South America specifically. Then look at the US immigration problem.

[@soylentgreenb]

He also had a hand in ”the opening of China”, which looks increasingly like it was a bad idea.

[@MB-jy2oi]

Wasn't this the conception of globalisation and Rules based order?

[@erichvonmolder9310]

@@MB-jy2oi , I thought that happened after WW2.

[@book2316]

One of the biggest criminal of the 20th century.

[@pyatig]

What Haig says at 18:54 about losing people and “civilized western nations” is chilling. All of these people would fit in perfectly in a certain painter’s inner circle. And these people have the nerve to criticize Russia

[@pillaianupr]

He has the blood of millions on his hands. He didn't answer for it in life and if there is an afterlife he will surely pay for it.

[@NkundaJeanClaude-ny7py]

Congratulations to the world 🎉🌎🎈🍾. The man who delighted in the suffering of others has finally met his own demise. Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that "depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World." He quoted reasons of national security, and because `(t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries ... Wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of U.S.

[@angelophilippopoulos9678]

War criminal!!

[@biglou76]

@@frankskoda-simmons I see that I’m about to take down my comment

[@shtyry7150]

He was not wrong though.

[@sdr50291]

Exactly what the USA is doing around the world at the moment.

[@shtyry7150]

Your mom? @@QuietlyHere666

[@AllIsWellaus]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out and for goodness sake, watch out for that step. It goes straight down. That man is evil.

[@austropithecus7055]

Henry will not freeze anymore....

[@tingli9823]

He is diabolic, but he's honest about it. "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous. To be a friend of the US is fatal." Unlike the United Snakes of Hypocrites. My respect!! 😇

[@Shineon83]

Okay, Little Pink (but your leader calls him, “honoured friend”)

[@plendafuture7451]

My respect too . He is a great man . He will be remembered .

[@soylentgreenb]

And that’s especially true if you are an american. Everything he did backfired spectacularly, costing american lives, money snd moral high ground.

[@youknowme1475]

He went on from escaping murder to commit murder

[@Monica-gj2yx]

This is what saddened me . . .

[@howardbealethemadprophetof3361]

Tom Lehrer "when Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, satire is dead"

[@Bleyluige]

Blinken is following his steps

[@theobserver9131]

His evil was exceeded by very few. I imagine he is now getting his just rewards from his Lord.

[@bcfortenberry]

He was a monster

[@tintinbenjy]

War criminal with a peace accolade What a joke

[@hungvo6957]

This man owed the people of South Vietnam an apology.

[@yespls4184]

*Cambodians, Laotians, East Timorese, and Bengalis*: "Get in line."

[@lilrr1431]

@@yespls4184 chile

[@roc7880]

yes. but people now hate him for not betraying Saigon sooner

[@soylentgreenb]

Ironically he also owes an apology to americans. His expedient and morally repugnant solutions always ended ip backfiring.

[@desmondjames1604]

The world just got a little better!

[@Hussarianbrother]

No no no. My grandfather and his brother were in Nam and never had a good thing to say of Kissinger. He should of been exiled a long time ago.

[@DuffyConcept]

I don't know of a better piece of news I could hear about today. Now I'm just gunna wait for our very own "the witch is dead" song.

[@prostokrasavalimited]

In Memory of Kissinger? You have to be kidding me 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@nimcom.5396]

In night mere!

[@jimsheen3579]

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." Tom Lehrer

[@tarnopol]

Gore Vidal says somewhere that back in the day at some big to-do at the Sistine Chapel, he and his friend (I forget who) saw Kissinger looking closely at the bottom portion of The Last Judgement. Vidal’s friend quipped, “Oh, look-Henry’s apartment hunting.”

[@Monica-gj2yx]

LOL!

[@void.defender]

Any elegy is undeserving for such an incarnation of evil like this person

[@mindsigh4]

Cheney was probably jealous of HKs power 👹💩👺

[@valentineisraelshabangu4069]

@@mindsigh4dick Cheney called Mandela a terrorist

[@reachstar7828]

It is insane. We honor the criminals and we spit on heroes.

[@rivercitymud]

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” - Malcolm X

[@kerryharnack3977]

Unreal this guy won the Noble Peace Prize. That is the real crime.

[@feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135]

I think the prize is based on doing something good, even if it's few and far between. It's not for being a good person

[@konradnsa]

The same about Obama reword

[@TomSkinner]

​@@feedmeyourragetearsareacce1135it's exactly what he was awarded the prize for, and the machinations leading to that agreement that make it so unreal. It was not one of the few good things.

[@adamburling9551]

Ok

[@kushsakhu]

The Kissinger of death.

[@libertyann439]

I coined that one too.

[@newyorkskier]

Surprised that all the comments are universally in condemnation of him, Actually, it is not surprising. He was truly an evil man. and I hope history will judge him accordingly

[@HashFunction-el4kz]

M

[@plendafuture7451]

He is a great man and his legacy will be remembered.

[@shahaman5694]

Because majority by definition is always, rough saying, stupid, they tend to oversimplify everything, especially historical events which creates a space to paint people “white and black”. That’s why people blindly hate people and that is what you see that in comments. There are always good people and evil people.

[@Real_SkyRipper]

because people are sheep and write what others want to read, they don't think that, they don't care, if people actually cared then all problems would be solved, they aren't because no one cares they just act as if they did, you don't care either, Kissinger did more in life than you will ever do.

[@VermyScrubs]

@@Real_SkyRipper Bro I would rather be a nobody then a War Criminal like wtf is your stance? 😂

[@ericvanljackwax1982]

this man amazes me his ability to steer conversations and always stay solid to this day is crazy if you think about it

[@user-mz8ge7dx4o]

I feel America is filled with so many curses and it is so chilling

[@jaspern.7702]

It's like the country was built on a massive Indian grave.

[@biglou76]

If evil had a face

[@libertyann439]

It has too many faces. And names.

[@user-it9fy8sw5s]

A real war criminal

[@sechabamotloli4156]

May his evil works in Cambodia haunt him into the afterlife.

[@adelezierler1547]

A very good conversation by Steve Bannon and what will come of this ever so difficult world of today.

[@shawnjones8033]

Blessed are the peacemakers. It appears he wasn’t one.

[@jesipohl6717]

@@Globalresearchdata

[@kenster8270]

For us Western Europeans who happened to end up on the western side of the Iron Curtain, the US provided security and human rights, while our brothers to the east suffered mass repression under Soviet rule. Elsewhere in the world, the US was just as ruthless and cruel as the Soviets, fuelling proxy wars and installing puppet regimes in various Third World nations. So for me as a European, this is a really complicated Cold War legacy to grapple with, because the US was the "good guy" in most of Europe (except possibly in Portugal and Spain?), while in Latin America they were the "bad guy".

[@mamanitubea]

Thank you always Kissinger for keeping the communist dictatorships out of Latin America

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

You are not wrong🫵

[@familieehrenfeld9123]

Correctly stated. This thing and his likes installed their own in the US govt. In every system, in every institution. They rule the world. They want to continue to rule the world. You can let them until they have eaten everything away like a carcerous sore.

[@redneck1608]

@@familieehrenfeld9123 Somehow people worship Mass Murderes because they kept them a cozy roof and a warm blanket in times of need. They do not care that the blanket he gave them was made of human skin, and the roof built by others wealth.

[@QuackerMan45]

there’s no good or bad guys with this level of power. they are always evil

[@fbh3872]

Mr. Kissinger was often told that he was too paranoid, and one day he replied: "You know, paranoiacs can have enemies too."

[@ricardocrispim1766]

We live in a world without henry kissinger🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ddwayn2469]

Now the time has came for him to stand justice for killing of millions. He will NOT rest in peace now.

[@qefa070]

The world won't miss him...

[@adamburling9551]

Maybe not you and those that agree with you. But you're not the world

[@captainnima]

This documentary is excellent. Another DW masterpiece.

[@fredrit323]

Just look at Vietnam today , a success story, a thriving economy, foreign investments booming, international tourism growing by the day, hardly the comunism nightmare mr. Kissinger has envisioned, and that at the cost of hundred of thousands of lives, Yet a lot of people are celebrating his legacy today, a world upside down...

[@gregoryturk1275]

Still an oppressive dictatorship.

[@ganboonmeng5370]

AND YOU GOT TO THANKS THE CCP OF CHINA FOR THIS....HAHAHA ! AFTER THE VEITNAM WAR..VEITNAM WENT INTO CAMBODIA...THEY WERE AT THE THAI..CAMBODIA BORDER...WITH A MASSIVE ..war tested army..Thailand couldn't match....Deng luanched the PLA at the North Veitnam border...sending a message....The Veitnamese didn't cross the Thai border...soon after the Cambodia war ended with negotiated peace !

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

it's not a utopia but at least "made in vietnam" still sounds more trustworthy than "made in china"

[@xx5386]

A man involved in wars in Chile & Argentina

[@clicheguevara5282]

FINALLY! The world is a better place now that Heinz Kissinger is no longer in it. That man has caused the undue suffering of millions of people.

[@streetsarecold]

I quickly ran to LIDL to buy champagne, partyyy timeee

[@emilycat8324]

Facts!

[@bjjones743]

Not really.. His power was passed on to the next person in line. Please don’t be fooled

[@familieehrenfeld9123]

​@@bjjones743I keep saying that

[@redneck1608]

@@bjjones743 Yep, his Protigé Klaus Schwab and the WEF are already working on that. The so called "Young Global Leaders" are nothing but the Afterbirth of Kissinger and the likes.

[@danwong2191]

Hes was a killer pure and simple.

[@leahcim1]

During an interview with American CBS host Ted Kopple this year, Kopple informed Kissinger that many of the T.V production crew question the legitimacy of talking with Kissinger and think there was a level of criminality around the bombing in Vietnam and Cambodia during the war. Kissinger replied to Kopple "that is a reflection of their ignorance... you’re interviewing me because I’m turning 100. You’re picking a topic, the bombing of Cambodia that happened 60 years ago, you have to know that it was a necessary step. Now, the younger generation feels that if they can raise their emotions they don’t have to think, if they think, they won’t ask that question."

[@hylobateslar4151]

IN MEMORIAM??

[@adamcraft9118]

He died yesterday

[@hylobateslar4151]

Thank god. I meant that he shouldn't be memorialized

[@huberto989]

Good riddance. He is a symbol of power and depravity.

[@luizrodolfosilva6177]

He once said: "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."

[@garymelnyk7910]

One of the Masters of War that Dylan sang about.

[@Joe_1sr9]

Ironic how he talks about Mao killing more civilians than his contemporaries. Don’t suppose he had the insight to his own atrocities!😮

[@user-xx2dk6fn6j]

I always wondered if the preservation of Kissinger himself (his legacy has a voice of its own) was the reason for the US not adhering to the international criminal court! I guess we may learn that now… or not as Bush son also triggered a war on false assertions… another one in the red zone when it comes to human decency as a leader.

[@kristencouillard3025]

The one and only reason the US is not part of the ICC is because they don’t want to be held accountable for their crimes against humanity, because no administration would be considered innocent.

[@mandarinandthetenrings2201]

You have to be careful, I think Henry Kissinger is given way to much power and influence that he really did not have.

[@Edson779]

@@mandarinandthetenrings2201it’s not about power and influence, it’s about america protecting their beloved mass murderous monsters and war criminals from any accountability ever, so they can always go on with the mass murderous and monstrous crimes against humanity and war crimes. Regarding Kissinger and power and influence, I can assure you he was powerful enough and influential enough when he was Secretary of State and national security adviser, then he went on to live 40 years+ of the most comfortable life possible, with Republican and democrats alike petting him for his crimes against humanity :)

[@amara8698]

You should change the thumbnail of the video. The more accurate one is as follows "In memoriam of a war criminal".

[@merovingian688]

He acted on the behalf of Nixon and the US government with their approval. He wasn’t a one man army.

[@TheWisdomOfTheAges_PsyM_Revd]

KissLinger: he lived way too long, I mean 100 years is a long time to make a mess.

[@fubdgshushujwse7484]

He clearly enjoyed the limited pleasure of political impunity in this temporary world. However, he will certainly not in the afterlife.

[@salatcs]

one of the best documentary, i saw it years ago , did not know that it was a dw stuff

[@bonniegettingthrumyday2866]

Here’s what 321 Million of us know- he never had our best interest at heart…