With the arrival of 1,400 New Zealand troops in Apia at the beginning of World War I, the government of Samoa was transformed peacefully from a German «protectorate» to a New Zealand military administ
Karl Hanssen’s memoirs provide an invaluable outsider’s view of life in New Zealand prisons and a unique perspective on German Samoa under New Zealand occupation. In October 1915, Hanssen, manager of
This concise reference identifies 300 plus Germans who moved to Tonga during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century as well as some of their descendants born in Tonga. Each biography lists
