60 years ago: Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie in Bonn

In 1954 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia became the first foreign head of state to visit the Federal Republic of Germany. His visit brought a breath of the exotic to provincial Bonn, then the provisional capital. For the young Federal Republic of Germany it was both a great honor and a sensation when the Ethiopian

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