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Image Under Fire: West German Development Aid and the Ghana Press War, 1960–1966

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Abstract

During the 1960s, development aid helped West Germany project a benign image while it discouraged diplomatic recognition of East Germany. In Ghana, however, this effort clashed with the Pan-Africanist aims of President Kwame Nkrumah. Four periodicals under his control attacked West Germany as neo-colonialist, militarist, racist, latently Nazi and a danger to world peace. West German officials resented this campaign and tried to make it stop, but none of their tactics, not even vague threats to aid, worked for long. The attacks ended with Nkrumah's overthrow in early 1966, but while they lasted, they demonstrated that a small state receiving aid could use the press to invert its asymmetric political relationship with the donor.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 259 - 270
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40 Memorandum of Steltzer on Meeting with Nkrumah, 15 Jan. 1965, PAAA B 34/485. See Landricina, Nkrumah and the West, 344.

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60 See, e.g., Pat Sloan, ‘Time for Extra Vigilance’, Evening News, 18 Nov. 1965.

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65 ‘Germany has £600m in S. Africa’, Ghanaian Times, 7 Aug. 1964. See also ‘West German Factory to Produce Ammunition for Pretoria Soon’, Ghanaian Times, 11 Jan. 1965, and ‘Unholy Alliance of the Fascists’, Evening News, 23 Aug. 1965.

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72 Obotan Awuku, ‘West Germany & Portugal Against Africa’, Spark, 30 Aug. 1963.

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81 Spark Correspondent, ‘Ominous Echoes of Nazi Aggression’, Spark, 16 Jul. 1965. See also D.N. Pritt, ‘Bonn Prepares for Aggressive War’, Spark, 31 Dec. 1965.

82 D.N. Pritt, ‘Where Nazis Are still in Office and Why’, Spark, 29 Oct. 1965.

83 Ibid. See also ‘Glimpses of Neo-Nazi West Germany’, Spark, 12 Nov. 1965, Pat Sloan, ‘Time for Extra Vigilance’, Evening News, 18 Nov. 1965, and Frei, Hitlers Eliten nach 1945.

84 Foreign Office files contain only one such letter (Brühl, Charge d'Affaires, Embassy in Accra to Editor-in-Chief, Ghanaian Times, 31 Aug. 1964, PAAA B 34/484), but memoranda reference other letters. See, e.g., Steltzer, Embassy in Accra to Referat L 3, Foreign Office, 3 Dec. 1964, PAAA B 34/484.

85 See various memoranda in PAAA B 34, files 408, 409, 484, 485, 488, 572, 573, 574, and 41.

86 Landricina, Nkrumah and the West, 312.

87 VLR I Steltzer, Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 10 Apr. 1963, PAAA B 34/409; Referat I B 3, Foreign Office on State Secretary Lahr's Conversation with President Nkrumah, 22 Apr. 1964, PAAA B 34/486; Referat I B 3, Foreign Office to All Embassies in Africa, 13 Aug. 1964 and Brühl, Chargé d'Affaires, ‘Arms Shipment’, Ghanaian Times, 25 Aug. 1964, both in PAAA B 34/484.

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89 ‘No Military Pact with South Africa’, Ghanaian Times, 26 Sep. 1964, PAAA B 34/485.

90 Reichhold to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 22 Aug. 1963, PAAA B 34/409. See Charles Williams, Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000), 278–85.

91 Steltzer, Talking Points for Meeting with Ghanaian Ambassador, Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 28 Jun. 1963, PAAA B 34/409.

92 Steltzer, Meeting with Nkrumah, 15 Jan. 1965, PAAA B 34/485; Schaad to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 28 Jan. 1965, PAAA B 34/573.

93 Jean Allman, ‘Phantoms of the Archive: Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot Named Hanna, and the Contingencies of Postcolonial History-Writing’, American Historical Review 118, 1 (2013), 104–30. See also David Rooney, Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy (Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 1988/2007), 311–12, Kilian, Die Hallstein-Doktrin, 77–8 and Landricina, Nkrumah and the West, 323–6.

94 Lüders to Referat 307, Foreign Office, 25 Mar. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

95 Steltzer to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 11 Dec. 1964 PAAA B 34/484.

96 Lüders to Referat 307, Foreign Office, 25 Mar. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

97 Reichhold to Referat Z A 2, 27 Nov. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

98 Lüders to Referat 307, Foreign Office, 25 Mar. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

99 Lüders, ‘Mündlicher Vortrag des Botschafters, Dr. Lüders gegenüber dem Staatssekretär des ghanaischen Aussenministeriums, Mr. Richard Akwei’, 13 Feb. 1963; Lüders, Embassy to Referat 307, Foreign Office, 13 Feb. 1963. Both are in PAAA B 34/409.

100 ‘Entwurf einer Anfrage für die Bundespressekonferenz’, no date, PAAA, B 34/409.

101 Alexander Böker, Dg I B, Foreign Office, 27 Feb. 1963, PAAA B 34/409.

102 Press Conference, 20 Feb. 1963, PAAA B 34/409. See Ndumbe, Was will Bonn in Afrika?, 116.

103 Brühl to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 9 Oct. 1963, PAAA B 34/408; Embassy in Accra to Ghanaian Foreign Ministry, undated, PAAA B 34/408.

104 Schirmer, Referat I B 3, Foreign Office to Embassy in Accra, 22 Nov. 1963, PAAA B 34/408; Referat I B 3, Foreign Office to Ghanaian Embassy in Bonn, 25 Nov. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

105 Reichhold to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 14 Dec. 1963, PAAA B 34/408.

106 Landricina, Nkrumah and the West, 339–58.

107 Steltzer to Referat L 3, Foreign Office, 3 Dec. 1964, PAAA B 34/484.

108 Steltzer to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 24 Sep. 1965, PAAA B 34/572. See also Landricina, Nkrumah and the West, 354.

109 Steltzer to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 3 Dec. 1965, PAAA B 34/574.

110 Roger S. Gocking, The History of Ghana (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005), 148.

111 Kilian, Die Hallstein-Doktrin, 81, 83; Steltzer to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 7 Mar. 1966, PAAA B 34/641.

112 Steltzer to Referat I B 3, Foreign Office, 3 Mar. 1966, PAAA B 34/641.