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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Hoisting the German flag at Mulinu'u, Upolu on 1 March 1900. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Samoan Islands (bordered in red), 1905. The German colonial empire in the Pacific Ocean. German Samoa is shown in red. Hoisting the Union Jack at Apia, Upolu on 30 August 1914. Flag of the governor of the Western Samoa Trust Territory.
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The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the Washington Conference of 1887, the Treaty of Berlin of 1889, and the Anglo-German Agreement on Samoa of ...
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