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German Samoa officially Malo Kaisalika / Kingdom of Samoa (German: Königreich Samoa; Samoan: Malo Kaisalika) [1] [2] [3] was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i, Apolima and Manono, now wholly within the Independent State of Samoa, formerly Western Samoa. Samoa was the last German colonial ...
Politically, the Samoan Islands are divided into two jurisdictions: [1] Samoa, an independent nation that gained political independence from New Zealand in 1962. It comprises the western half of the Samoan Islands, (2,831 km 2 (1,093 sq mi) and 196,000 inhabitants (2016)). It was known as German Samoa from 1900 to 1914, and as Western Samoa ...
In the 1930s, German nationalist sentiment still existed in the Territory of Western Samoa, administered by New Zealand.The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany in 1933, and in January 1934 a German colonist in Samoa named Alfred Matthes received permission to establish a Samoan branch of the party. [9]
In the 1800s, the large Vailele Plantation inland was owned by the German company Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft (DHPG) which employed workers from the Melanesian islands. DHPG was a major plantation owner in Samoa.
German Empire: The Samoan islands of Upolu and Savaii and the small islands of Apolima and Manono, west of 171 degrees west longitude, were declared a protectorate of the German Empire, and became known as German Samoa, with a flag raising on 1 March 1900, and appointment of Wilhelm Solf as governor. This "happy acquisition" was viewed in ...
Over the following days, the remaining P-class cruisers also left; two sailed for American Samoa and Tonga to inform the respective authorities of the occupation of Samoa. The Pyramus took five German prisoners, including Schultz, to Fiji. [24] The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hastened to Samoa after Admiral von Spee learned of the ...
The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the First Samoan Civil War. [ 1 ] Background
Germany obtained the western islands and created German Samoa, the U.S. annexed the eastern islands and created American Samoa, and the British withdrew their claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands. In 1900, Iosefo was declared Ali'i Sili (highest chief) by the German Samoa colonial powers.