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 Namib
Ericksen Hottentotte 7 Shark Island p. 142
Herero and Nama genocide
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The Herero and Nama genocide, or the Namibian genocide, was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. Arou
Shark Island concentration camp
…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 Nama genocide of 1904–08. Between 1,032 and 3,000 Herero and Nama men, women, and children died in the camp between March 1905 and its closing in April 1907. On 12…
Chained Herero and Nama prisoners during the genocide
Theodor Leutwein toasting Hendrik Witbooi in 1896
Central figure Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, the Oberbefehlshaber (Supreme Commander) of the protection force in German South West Africa, in Keetmanshoop during the Herero uprising, 1904
The terrain near Waterberg mountain in Namibia where the decisive battle was fought