It's important to share the horrific story of a genocide with the world and never forget it. Unfortunately, it's far too far removed from the conversation.

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April 10, 2025

From 1904 to 1912, Shark Island housed a hospital and a concentration and internment camp, where around 2,000 captured Orlam and Nama people and their families were imprisoned during the genocide of the Herero and Nama. Between 1,032 and 3,000 people died as a result of the poor hygiene and weather conditions, systematic malnutrition (scurvy), and exhaustion from the hard physical labor during the construction of the railway tracks and the harbor, or as servants of the white settlers.
Particularly brutal intimidation strategies in the concentration camp included rape and various forms of torture, poisoning, medical experiments, and public executions. Female prisoners were forced to boil and shave the heads of the slain prisoners, which were then shipped to Berlin for pseudoscientific research purposes. ...
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