On April the 8th 1945 the New Zealand Division, including the 28th Maori Battalion, launched an offensive from the banks of the Senio River in northern Italy and then dashed towards Trieste where a tense standoff ensued with Yugoslav partisans. Author and historian Monty Soutar talks about those tense last weeks of the war and what Maori soldiers did after Germany's surrender.
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