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Henry Kissinger, the child refugee who rose to become U.S. Secretary of State has died at the age of 100.

He was one of America's most distinguished diplomats.

Kissinger passed away at his home in Connecticut according to a statement from Kissinger Associates.

We get more on the life of Henry Kissinger from Bloomberg's Nathan Hager.

Henry Albert Kissinger was born in 1923 in the German state of Bavaria, the oldest son of a Jewish

school teacher. Kissinger was known as Heinz until he moved with his family to the United States

in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution.

At the age of 19, while excelling at City College of New York,

Kissinger was drafted in the Army.

He served as an interpreter in the country of his birth during World War II and after the war he helped to round up Gestapo officers as a member of the 970th Counterintelligence Corps.

In an interview with Bloomberg's editor-in-chief John Mikkelthwaite Kissinger said he saw the first-hand impact of authoritarianism and totalitarianism in his youth.

It was an experience which it's so elemental that it becomes part of you.

Kissinger brought that experience back with him to the United States.

He resumed his studies at Harvard University.

His doctoral dissertation there focused on balances of power in 19th century Europe.

As a tenured professor at Harvard, Kissinger honed the conservative

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