Celebrating 112 years of the Ethiopian-German Friendship. On this date on March 7, 1905, Ethiopia and Germany entered a Treaty of Friendship.
“During the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936, Nazi Germany provided Ethiopia with its greatest source of aid with which to resist Italian aggression. In spite of the German government`s official stance of neutrality in the conflict and the lack of a long-standing relationship between Ethiopia and Germany, direct German government involvement in the supply of arms to Ethiopia continued as late as 1936. The Germans viewed Ethiopia as a potentially significant market for overseas exports, and secondarily, they considered involvement in Ethiopia as an opportunity for Germany to increase her influence in the Horn of Africa at the expense of Great Britain and France.`
(Source: Girding for Battle: The Arms Trade in a Global Perspective, 1815-1940)
(Photo: Ethiopia: You have a friend in Hitler. A 1935 photograph of an Ethiopian holding a newspaper depicting Adolf Hitler on the front page)
ting 112 years of the Ethiopian-German Friendship.
