Shark Island Concentration Camp

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Images of survivors of the Herero genocide foreshadowed similar scenes from the liberation of Nazi death camps, Unknown, 1904
The Shark Island Concentration Camp, also known as Death Island, was a
German camp off the coast of Luderitz, Namibia. In the early 1900s,
thousands of enslaved people died at the camp. The German Empire
almost wiped out the Herero people at the camp through small food rations
and violence.

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German-Herero Conflict 1904-1907
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