Alfred Kissinger (* May 27th, 1923 in Fürth, Franconia, Bavaria as Heinz Alfred Kissinger) is a highly-gifted Student of Bookkeeping.
His Family emigrated from Nazi Germany to the USA in September 1938. Kissinger and his Brother Walter go to George Washington High School in New York City, in the then German-Jewish neighborhood of Washington Heights (ironically called "Fourth Reich").
Life there isn't that easy for Jews like them - there are Gangs like the Amsterdams and Shamrocks, who shout "Kill all Jews!" in public and sometimes beat up Jews. Similar to what he went through in Germany, except that things have become much worse there.