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.[8] 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.[9][10][11]