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Uncovering Uncomfortable Histories: The Legacy of Nazi Connections and Colonialism in International Development

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Exploring new avenues for cooperation between the German Institute for Economic Research (ifo) and the Portuguese colonial state: Pössinger’s travel route through Angola, 1963.

Andreas Stucki
University of Bern

Nearly eighty years after World War II, research into the connections between Nazism, colonialism, and international development remains an underexplored area despite considerable scholarship on the complex history of development after 1945. Continued involvement of colonial development experts and bureaucrats in African late colonial states highlights how German practitioners with Nazi ties moved into new roles in imperial and international development after the Second World War.

This begs the question: to what extent might Nazi ideologies and practices have shaped postwar global development efforts?

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