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The Occupation of Samoa was the takeover – and subsequent administration – of the Pacific colony of German Samoa by New Zealand during World War I. It started in late August 1914 with landings by the Samoa Expeditionary Force from New Zealand.
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.
Matthes returned to Germany in 1936 to attend the Nazi Party's world congress in Hamburg; he returned to Samoa on 20 January 1937. [1] Later that year a new German consul was appointed to New Zealand, Walter Hellenthal. He visited Samoa and found the party branch to be poorly organised; he also questioned the racial make-up of its membership. [7]
Although Germany refused to officially surrender the colonies, no resistance was offered and the occupation took place without any fighting. Despite claims that German Samoa was the first enemy territory to fall to imperial forces, the first seizure of a German colony had occurred four days earlier when Togoland was captured as part of the West ...
World War I broke out in August 1914, and soon after, New Zealand sent an expeditionary force to seize and occupy German Samoa. Although Germany refused to officially surrender the islands, no resistance was offered and the occupation took place without any fighting. New Zealand continued the occupation of Western Samoa throughout World War I.
Logan, now the Military Administrator of Samoa [13] and with the German governor Erich Schultz-Ewerth as prisoner of war, oversaw the official raising of the Union Jack the following day, formally declaring the occupation of German Samoa. [12] The SEF remained in Samoa until March 1915, when it began returning to New Zealand.
One of the first land offensives in the Pacific theatre was the invasion of German Samoa on 29–30 August 1914 by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after over 1,000 New Zealanders landed on the German colony, supported by an Australian and French naval squadron.
Robert Louis Stevenson did not witness the storm and its aftermath at Apia but after his December 1889 arrival to Samoa, he wrote about the event. [3] The Second Samoan Civil War , involving Germany, the United States, and Britain, eventually resulted in the Tripartite Convention of 1899 , which partitioned the Samoan Islands into American ...