过去半个世纪发表的大量文章和书籍都试图理解亨利·基辛格作为国家安全顾问、国务卿和美国总统红颜知己的角色，更不用说他作为矛盾的美国犹太人的地位了。尼尔·弗格森的基辛格，卷。1923 年至 1968 年 1 月 1 日：《理想主义者》是第一个用几页篇幅来探讨基辛格战时军事服役中迄今为止尚未探讨的方面的人：他解放了集中营。正如弗格森所解释的那样：“1945 年 4 月 10 日，就在盖世太保潜伏小组被围捕的前几天，基辛格和第 84 师的其他成员偶然发现了阿勒姆集中营，直面大屠杀。多年来，基辛格都没有谈论过这一事件。事实上，他的存在之所以被曝光，是因为他的一位美国大兵同事、一位名叫弗农·托特的无线电操作员决定公布他那天拍摄的照片。基辛格后来承认，见到阿勒姆是“我一生中最可怕的经历之一”。

基辛格写了一封长达两页的信，描述了他在最初被送往阿勒姆的 850 名犹太人中幸存的 35 名营养不良囚犯时的感受。年轻的基辛格在解放后几周内表达的这些非常原始的情感一直隐藏在他的论文中，他于 1977 年将这些论文捐赠给国会图书馆，直到弗格森将它们发表在他的新书中。基辛格以“永恒的犹太人”为题，对他所看到的景象进行了以下赤裸裸、可怕的描述：

Henry Kissinger, pictured right, with other soldiers of his unit, with German children during World War II. During the American's advance into his homeland, despite only being a private, Kissinger was put in charge of the administration of the city of Krefeld, thanks to him being a German language speaker. He went on to see the liberation of the Ahlem concentration camp

Henry Kissinger, arguably the most identifiable secretary of state in modern times, died at the age of 100 on Wednesday having witnessed first hand some of the most significant historical events that went on to shape our world today. Pictured: Kissinger is seen as a young man during his time in the US Army's 84th Infantry Division at Camp Claiborne

The concentration camp of Ahlem was built on a hillside overlooking Hannover. Barbed wire surrounded it. And as our jeep traveled down the street skeletons in striped suits lined the road. There was a tunnel in the side of the hill where the inmates worked 20 hours a day in semi-darkness.

阿勒姆集中营建在俯瞰汉诺威的山坡上。铁丝网将其包围。当我们

的吉普车沿着街道行驶时，穿着条纹西装的骷髅就排列在路边。

山坡上有一条隧道，犯人每天在半黑暗中工作20个小时。

I stopped the jeep. Cloth seemed to fall from the bodies, the head was held up by a stick that once might have been a throat. Poles hang from the sides where arms should be, poles are the legs. 'What's your name?' And the man's eyes cloud and he takes off his hat in anticipation of a blow. 'Folek… Folek Sama.' 'Don't take off your hat, you are free now.'

And as I say it, I look over the camp. I see the huts, I observe the empty faces, the dead eyes. You are free now. I, with my pressed uniform, I have lived in filth and squalor, I haven't been beaten and kicked. What kind of freedom can I offer? I see my friend enter one of the huts and come out with tears in his eyes. 'Don't go in there. We had to kick them to tell the dead from the living.'

That is humanity in the 20th century. People reach such a stupor of suffering that life and death, animation or immobility can't be differentiated any more. And then, who is dead and who is alive, the man whose agonized face stares at me from the cot or Folek Sama, who stands with bowed head and emaciated body? Who was lucky, the man who draws circles in the sand and mumbles 'I am free' or the bones that are interred in the hillside?

Folek Sama, your foot has been crushed so that you can't run away, your face is 40, your body is ageless, yet all your birth certificate reads is 16. And I stand there with my clean clothes and make a speech to you and your comrades.

Folek Sama, humanity stands accused in you. I, Joe Smith, human dignity, everybody has failed you. You should be preserved in cement up here on the hillside for future generation[s] to look upon and take stock. Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire. What differentiates you and your comrades from animals[?] Why do we in the 20th century countenance you?

Yet, Folek, you are still human. You stand before me and tears run down your cheek. Hysterical sobbing follows. Go ahead and cry, Folek Sama, because your tears testify to your humanity, because they will be absorbed in this cursed soil, dedicating it.

As long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it. Nothing done for you will ever restore you.

You are eternal in this respect.

阿勒姆集中营建在俯瞰汉诺威的山坡上。铁丝网将其包围。当我们的吉普车沿着街道行驶时，穿着条纹西装的骷髅就排列在路边。山坡上有一条隧道，犯人每天在半黑暗中工作20个小时。



我停下了吉普车。衣服似乎从尸体上掉落下来，头部被一根曾经可能是喉咙的棍子支撑着。杆子挂在手臂应该在的地方，杆子是腿。“你叫什么名字？” 那人的眼神变得阴沉起来，他摘下帽子，准备挨一击。“福莱克……福莱克大人。” “别脱帽子，你现在自由了。”



当我这么说的时候，我环视了营地。我看到那些小屋，我观察那些空洞的面孔，死气沉沉的眼睛。你现在自由了。我穿着熨烫的制服，生活在污秽肮脏之中，没有挨过拳打脚踢。我可以提供什么样的自由？我看到我的朋友走进一间小屋，出来时眼里含着泪水。“别进去。我们必须踢他们才能区分死者和生者。”



这就是20世纪的人类。人到了痛苦昏迷的地步，生与死、动静已无法分别。那么，谁是死者，谁是活者，是那个在小床上用痛苦的脸盯着我的男人，还是低着头、瘦弱的身体站着的福莱克·萨玛？谁是幸运的，是那个在沙子上画圈、咕哝着“我自由了”的人，还是那些埋在山坡上的白骨？



福莱克·萨玛，你的脚被压碎了，你无法逃跑，你的脸已经40岁了，你的身体不老了，但你的出生证明上写的是16岁。我穿着干净的衣服站在那里向你发表演讲和你的战友们。



福莱克萨玛，人性在你身上受到了指控。我，张三，人的尊严，每个人都辜负了你。你应该用水泥保存在山坡上，供子孙后代瞻仰和盘点。人的尊严、客观价值都止步于这道铁丝网之上。你和你的战友与动物有什么区别[？]为什么我们在20世纪会支持你？



然而，福莱克，你仍然是人类。你站在我面前，泪水顺着脸颊流下来。接下来是歇斯底里的抽泣。继续哭泣吧，福莱克·萨玛，因为你的眼泪证明了你的人性，因为它们将被这片被诅咒的土壤所吸收，奉献它。



只要良心作为一个概念存在于这个世界上，你就会将它人格化。为你所做的一切都无法让你恢复。



在这方面你是永恒的。

                  美军第84步兵师部分士兵合影

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2005 年，弗农·托特出版了一本“一英寸厚的自制书”，其中收录了 他的阿勒姆解放者同伴的故事以及他用背心口袋相机拍摄的照片。2007 年，他准备了一部关于他解放了阿勒姆的部队的纪录片。《阿勒姆天使》由佛罗里达大学纪录片研究所制作。该影片于 2007 年 5 月在纽约市林肯中心的一次活动中首映，观众中有十几名阿勒姆集中营的幸存者。就在电影上映前，亨利·基辛格发表了以下言论，这些言论并未出现在弗格森的传记中，但这些言论表明了他在阿勒姆作为一名年轻大兵时所看到的对他一生的影响：

“I speak to many groups and have many opportunities to express myself, but I can say that there’s no group that means as much to me as this particular group this evening and I am proud that you have let me come here. I was with the 84th Infantry Division. I started out in G Company of the 335th Regiment, digging foxholes in Louisiana. When the division moved to Germany, I was still with the G Company of the 335th Regiment and one day our General came on inspection and called me over and said, “soldier explain what’s going on here” to me. So I did. Next thing I knew, I was transferred to the G-2 section, which dealt with intelligence. And in that capacity, I then served with the 84th Infantry Division when it took Hanover. And in the outskirts of Hanover, as the survivors here know, was the concentration camp—or labor camp—of Ahlem. And I of course had read about concentration camps. Later on I found out, I knew that my grandmother and many members of my family were sent to concentration camps. In fact, thirteen of my family died in concentration camps, including my grandmother. But I could not imagine what it was like, I had never seen people degraded to the level that people were in Ahlem. They barely looked human. They were skeletons. I don’t have to tell this to the survivors. In fact, they were such skeletons that it was dangerous to give them solid food because some of them could not digest it. It was the single most shocking experience I have ever had, and that’s been impressed on my memory.

“我与许多团体交谈，并有很多机会表达自己，但我可以说，没有哪个团体对我来说比今晚这个特定的团体更重要，我很自豪你们让我来到这里。我当时在第84步兵师。我从第 335 团 G 连开始在路易斯安那州挖散兵坑。当该师转移到德国时，我还在335团的G连，有一天我们的将军来视察，把我叫过去，对我说：“士兵解释一下这里发生了什么”。所以我做了。接下来我就知道，我被调到了 G-2 部门，负责情报工作。当第 84 步兵师占领汉诺威时，我以这个身份在该师服役。正如这里的幸存者所知，在汉诺威郊区是阿勒姆集中营（或劳动营）。我当然读过有关集中营的内容。后来我才知道，我的祖母和我的很多家人都被送到了集中营。事实上，我的家人中有十三人死于集中营，其中包括我的祖母。但我无法想象那是什么样子，我从来没有见过人们堕落到阿勒姆那样的水平。他们看起来几乎不像人类。他们是骷髅。我不必把这件事告诉幸存者。事实上，它们的骨骼如此发达，给它们提供固体食物是很危险的，因为它们中的一些无法消化。这是我所经历过的最令人震惊的经历，并且给我留下了深刻的印象。

There were many articles written about me and they say I was traumatized by what happened in Nazi Germany as a child. That’s nonsense! When I was in Nazi Germany, they were not yet killing people. I left in ’38. But the traumatic event was to see Ahlem. That is when one saw the bestiality of the system and the degradation of human beings and there is nothing I am more proud of of my service to this country than having been one of those who had the honor of liberating the Ahlem Concentration Camp. And it is something we must not forget. It’s an obligation we all have. I don’t talk about it much, because people won’t understand it, who haven’t been through it. But I salute the survivors here, and I’d be honored if they came up here and had a picture taken with me. I want to thank you all.”

有很多关于我的文章，他们说我小时候在纳粹德国发生的事情给我带来了创伤。那是胡说八道！当我在纳粹德国的时候，他们还没有杀人。我是38年离开的。但最痛苦的事情是见到阿勒姆。那时，人们看到了制度的兽性和人类的堕落，没有什么比我成为有幸解放阿勒姆集中营的人之一更为我为这个国家所做的贡献而感到自豪的了。这是我们不能忘记的。这是我们所有人都有的义务。我不多说，因为没有经历过的人不会理解。但我向这里的幸存者致敬，如果他们能来到这里与我合影，我将感到荣幸。我要感谢你们大家。”

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