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The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau hastened to Samoa after Admiral von Spee learned of the occupation. He arrived off Apia on 14 September, three days after the departure of the last of the Allied cruisers and transports. The approach of the German ships was observed and the New Zealanders promptly manned their defences while many ...
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 ...
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.
Map of German Colonies in the Pacific, 1914. Brown, German New Guinea; Orange, North Solomons; Red, German Samoa; Yellow, Other Pacific Territories. These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919 Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914; Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914; German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885 ...
Widely recognized state. The following are colonies, concessions and protectorates of Germany: German East Africa (Colony to November 25, 1918) German Kiautschou (Concession to November 7, 1914) German New Guinea (Protectorate to June 28, 1919) German Samoa (Protectorate) German South-West Africa (Colony to June 28, 1919) Hankou (Concession to ...
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.
German Samoa (1900−1920) — a former German colony in Samoa, Oceania. Subcategories. ... Occupation of German Samoa; S. Samoan crisis; Samoan Civil War;
Rumored German instigation for a pro-Axis coup d'état in Iran before the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. [24] Operation Tiger (German plans to instigate a pro-Axis Pashtun insurrection on Waziristan to menace North India through Border conflicts with Afghanistan. Carried out since August 1942, but cancelled in 1944 due to economical problems)