Were Nazi concentration camps inspired by "protection camps" during the Boer War?

I've read that & I don't recall. Read about the Armenian Holocaust, that was what inspired Hitler! That's why he always mentioned Turkey & Hamid II in his speeches.

No. The Nazi concentration camps were inspired by the German colonial camps of

Deutsche Sud-West Afrika, now Namibia.

Source: Anne Applebaun GULAG A HISTORY

"As not everybody remembers, the Germans briefly had African colonies:

one of them was Deutsche Sud-West Afrika, now Namibia. The territory

was populated by the Herero, a tribe whose presence the Germans resented;

not only did their numbers hampered white settlement, but their presence

violated the ethnic purity of the new "German" state. At first, the

colonial policy was simply to slaughter the Herero. To some of the German

colonists, this seemed inefficient."

"The Herero were duly driven into concentration

camps. But the Herero were not merely starved. They also died of

exhaustion, carrying out forced labour on behalf of the German colony.

At the beginning of 1905, there had been 14,000 Herero in captivity. By

the end of that year, half were dead."

"Because of the Herero, the word Konzentrationslager first appeared in

German, in 1905. It was also in these African camps that the first

German medical experiments were conducted on human beings. Two of Joseph

Mengele's teachers, Theodor Mollison and Eugen Fischer, carried out

research on the Herero, the latter in an attempt to prove his theories

about the superiority of the white race. Nor was he alone in his beliefs.

In 1912, a best-selling German book, German Thought in the World, claimed

that nothing "can convince reasonable people the preservation of a tribe

of South African kaffirs is more important for the future of humanity

than the expansion of the great European nations and the white race in

general," and that "it is only when the indigenous peoples have learned

to produce something of value in the service of the superior race..that

they can be said to have a moral right to exist."

The resemblance to the racist language of the Holocaust is clear enough;

there was, in addition, one further strange coincidence. The first

imperial commissioner of Deutsche Sud-West Afrika was one Dr Heinrich

Goering the father of Hermann, who set up the first Nazi camps in 1933."