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Nazis in Duitse kolonies... 
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New Zealand had seized Samoa in 1914 from Germany and shipped many of the Germans to an island in the Hauraki Gulf. When World War I ended a number of the Germans who had married Samoans were able to return to Samoa and settle down again. The League of Nations awarded the mandate over Samoa to New Zealand who then made something of a botch of it with incidents including the careless introduction of Spanish influenza which killed 7,542 Samoans and the shooting of pro-self government Mau chiefs on the streets of Apia. By the 1930s much of that was behind the administrators and former circus master and Mississippi River boat gambler Arthur Braisby in his more recent capacity as Samoa Police Commissioner had something to do again.
On 15.1.1934, Mr. Alfred Matthes, a German planter (with a Tongan wife) in Western Samoa, was authorized to establish a branch of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or "Nazi Party") there by NSDAP District Leader E.W. Bohle. "Matthes made himself the first [Nazi Party] leader in Samoa and at once began to receive literature and printed propaganda from the Auslands Abteilung [Foreign Branch] of the Nazi Party in Hamburg. This literature, etc., was freely distributed among the Germans in Western Samoa." (Burke 1945c: 114) In December Matthes started to publish a circular, the "Samoan Nazi".
The Samoan Nazi Party had to compromise on racial purity; one committee member was married to a Jewish woman and two others were married to Samoans. Braisby, who seemed to know everything, reported to Wellington that the Samoan Nazi's were bothered by the Arian standards required by Berlin. "To overcome this difficulty various debates have taken place among the Samoan Nazi's, and reference made to various anthropology authorities with the object of proving that Polynesian natives are not what is considered as coloured Negroid," Braisby reported to Wellington. "They appear to be having some difficulty in this direction, but the issue is so important to them that their hard work, talk and beer enter into their efforts. They persevere. The subject of this extraordinary discussion is watched with humorous interest by the German Concordia group, who, for the moment, may be considered to be the non-Nazi group." (Letter of Braisby to New Zealand governor Alfred Turnbull, dated 12.12.1934) The Samoan Nazi's presented their evidence to Berlin but there is no record of a reply. By 1936 Wellington was getting a bit more concerned about the Samoan Nazi and acting Samoa Administrator Alfred Turnbull was told to keep a closer watch on them as "there is perhaps some danger of their being inflamed by the somewhat ruthless actions in Germany of Hitler."
On January 20, 1937, Alfred Matthes and Gerhard Stoeicht returned to Apia from the Nazi Party's World Congress in Hamburg, Germany. (Burke 1945c: 116)
In the spring of 1937 the German consul in Wellington visited the Concordia Gruppe in Apia. He reported to Berlin that the club on Beach Road "now bears a definitely National-Socialist imprint. There are pictures of our Führer in every room and in front of the ministry flies our national flag" (report to ministry of foreign affairs, dated 30.5.1937). He also wrote that New Zealand had become indifferent over Samoa and Berlin could be expected to get their former colonial place in the sun back without "over much persuasion". However, the problem was that in Samoa now there were "all degrees of miscegenation" among the island's German population which "expressed the whole tragedy of the German cause in Samoa".
Matthes kept the movement going and Braisby in July 1938 reported on a meeting, which 10 Samoans were a letter from Adolf Hitler was read out. Matthes said the Führer had promised the German people the return of their former colonies by Christmas. "What happened in the Rhine Valley is going to happen also to Samoa and New Guinea," Matthes said, "and at a not far distant date, according to the letter I have received from Hitler." During the Munich crisis in 1938 the Samoan Nazi became active again and apparently planned to seize some key government institutions. Briasby sent his police into the countryside to practice on the Lewis guns -- the same guns used on Samoans in 1929. Matthes went broke and Berlin dissolved the Samoan Nazi in April 1939. According to the Reichshauptstadt, Matthes and his party were a disgrace. The German Consul in Wellington asked New Zealand to help Matthes return to Germany. It is not clear if Matthes ever reached Germany.
1939, when the war started, the New Zealand authorities quickly bundled up the German population and dispatched them to Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. A document that was found in Germany after the war proved that twelve Western Samoans had an official NSDAP membership card. Ten of them emigrated to New Zealand after the war.


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