Henry Kissinger, a dominating and polarizing force in US foreign policy, dies at 100

enry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state and national security adviser

who escaped Nazi Germany in his youth to become one of the most influential

controversial foreign policy figures in American history, has died. He was 100.

Kissinger died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut

according to a statement from his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates

The firm did not provide a cause of death.

The firm did not provide a cause of death.

Kissinger was synonymous with US foreign policy in the 1970s