Soon after declaring war, New Zealand sent an expeditionary force and occupied the German Samoan islands. New Zealand soldiers also fought against German troops at the Western Front. Back in New Zealand, the government interned many Germans as enemy aliens on Somes Island and Motuihe Island. [4]

Apr 7, 2023 · In a July 1925 speech Adolf Hitler referred to New Zealanders as ‘a lower form of human being’ who ‘lived in trees and clambered around on all fours having not yet learned to walk upright’.

Feb 16, 2010 · Yet it consistently advocated negotiations with Nazi Germany, signed a trade agreement with it, welcomed the Munich settlement, discouraged public criticism of the German government and pursued a half-hearted rearmament programme.

Apr 23, 2018 · Roy Courlander was a New Zealand soldier who joined Nazi Germany's infamous SS during WW2. Black Sheep investigates why he chose to turn traitor.

A branch of the Nazi Party operated in the Territory of Western Samoa, a League of Nations mandate administered by New Zealand, from 1934 until 1939. It was founded by German settler Alfred Matthes following a visit by Reichsmarine cruiser Karlsruhe to the territory, which led a surge in German nationalism among Germans in Western Samoa, who ...

Several men interned in New Zealand during World War II were Jewish, part-Jewish or had a Jewish background. This essay focuses on these internees, who had come to New Zealand before the war as refugees from Germany and Austria, fleeing Nazism.

Jan 27, 2020 · Eva Brent was one of the Jews desperate to enter New Zealand. In 1938 she was a young woman living in Berlin. Nazi mobs were torching the city’s synagogues, and looting its Jewish-owned...

When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, it quickly moved to put its programme into effect throughout the German state. This included Germany’s foreign relations, both official and unofficial. In New Zealand this impacted the German consulate and the two German clubs in Auckland and Wellington.

Around 1,000 German refugees, mostly Jewish, fled to New Zealand in the 1930s and 1940s. They were escaping the horrors of Nazi Germany. By the 1950s a number of them were leading figures, from artists and academics to doctors and lawyers.

In contrast to its entry into the First World War, New Zealand acted in its own right by formally declaring war on Germany (unlike Australia, which held that the King’s declaration, as in 1914, automatically extended to all his Dominions).