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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 ...
It is regarded as fictional by some, such as Gunter Senft (see his Weird Papalagi and a fake Samoan chief — A footnote to the Noble Savage Myth). In 1997 Canadian author Peter Cavelti adapted Scheurmann’s work to the English language audience, translating Chief Tuiavii’s speeches and presenting a comprehensive analysis of the history ...
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]
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 ...
During the German interracial marriage debate (1912), he issued a controversial ban on interracial marriages. In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I and the occupation of German Samoa by the New Zealand Army troops, he was taken prisoner of war and held in captivity until 1919. For a short time after the war he defended Germans before ...
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.
Solf in German Samoa, 1910. The division of the Samoan Islands as a result of the Tripartite Convention of 1899 assigned the western islands to Germany (independent Samoa today) and Eastern Samoa to the United States (American Samoa today). [2] Wilhelm Solf, at age 38, became the first Governor of German Samoa on 1 March 1900. "Solf was a man ...
German Samoa (1900−1920) — a former German colony in Samoa, Oceania. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. G.