Shark Island concentration camp
Early 20th-century concentration camp used by the German Empire in colonial Namibia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shark Island | |
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Concentration camp | |
Other names | Konzentrationslager auf der Haifischinsel vor Lüderitzbucht |
Location | Luderitz, German South West Africa |
Operated by | Imperial German Army |
Original use | Officially a prisoner of war camp, in reality a civilian internment camp, described by some as a death camp[1][2][3] or even extermination camp[4][5][6][7] |
Operational | 1905–1907 |
Inmates | Herero, Nama |
Killed | Unknown (estimates range between 1,032 and 3,000) |
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Shark Island or "Death Island" was one of five concentration camps in German South West Africa. It was located on Shark Island off Lüderitz, in the far south-west of the territory which today is Namibia. It was used by the German Empire during the Herero and Namaqua genocide of 1904–08. Between 1,032 and 3,000 Herero and Namaqua men, women, and children died in the camp between March 1905 and its closing in April 1907.[8][9][10]