Statistics from the Namibia Genocide
- Mostly all deaths were characterized by widespread caused from starvation and thirst
- In total, 24,000–100,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama died
- 1700 prisoners (including 1203 Nama) had died by April 1907
- Many Herero died later of disease, overwork, and malnutrition.
- Estimates of the mortality rate at the camps are between 45% and 74%
- Missionary reports put the death rate at 12–18 per day; as many as 80% of the prisoners sent to Shark Island eventually died there
- In December 1906, four months after their arrival, 291 Nama died (a rate of more than nine people per day).
- First Genocide of the 20th century
- 1 st German concentration camp in Wintuk
- _4,000 Hereo beaten, worked, and starved to death
- second concentration camp held over 3,000 women and children