Next time Kate "Hawhawsdottir" Laycock tries to tell you on Deutsche Welle Radio that the British invented concentration camps, email and ask her about Shark Island. Though it was built three years after the last British camps were closed, in 1902, Shark Island was far more like what most people think of when they see the words "concentration camp". Arbitrary execution by guards, starvation, disease, inhumane medical experiments and death through over work were all hallmarks of Shark Island in 1905 in what is now Namibia. The main cause of death among the Boer women and children held in British concentration camps five years earlier was disease caused by incompetent healthcare administration, not a policy of near genocide. Similar incompetence meant far more British soldiers died in their camps than on the battlefield. Shark Island was part of an attempt by Imperial Germany to wipe out the rebellious Herero and Nama people. Some of those involved in the deaths of up to 3,000 prisoners at Shark Island played a role in setting up the Nazi camps just over 25 years later. And by the way, the British got the idea of corralling the civilian population to stop them supplying guerrilla fighters from t Spanish operations in Cuba. And in view of Deutsche Welle's penchant love of American propaganda maybe they should ask themselves whether Indian reservations were not the inspiration for the Spanish in Cuba.