Äthiopien '84/ 85. Hunger — Hilfe — Kalter Krieg
In the organizer's words:
The background
In the mid-1980s, a severe drought led to a major famine in some countries in the Sahel region, which mainly affected parts of Ethiopia. The civil war there between the socialist-oriented military regime and rebels exacerbated the plight of the population. In October 1984, a British television report with drastic footage of famine victims caused horror in large parts of the world.
The military aid mission
Countries from East and West sent air transport forces to Ethiopia to help supply remote regions. Both the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) took part. This meant that soldiers from the Bundeswehr and the National People's Army were simultaneously involved in an international aid operation in the middle of the last peak phase of the Cold War. This deployment of transport aircraft, which is largely forgotten today, started before the well-known musical aid projects "Band Aid" and "Live Aid".
The exhibition
The multi-perspective exhibition looks at the aid measures in a political, military and social context. Did the countries providing aid in East and West act purely for humanitarian reasons or also for political interests? Why were military transport planes needed to bring the relief supplies to the suffering population? How did West and East German soldiers encounter each other on deployment? How did civil society, shaken up by media coverage, get involved in the relief effort? What do oil radiators have to do with criticism of aid from the Global North?
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