Other places of confinement: Bedeau internment camp for Algerian Jewish soldiers

The origins of the Bedeau camp are linked to colonialism and colonial wars. During World War II Vichy Algeria became an internment camp for a minority of Algeria's Jewish population, namely soldiers mobilized for war. Why and how Algerian Jews went from soldier to camp prisoner is a chronicle of bureaucratic and racist reversals to the place of Jews in France's military hierarchy. Bedeau camp exemplified social exclusion, geographic isolation combined with racial specialization in which Algerian Jews lost their privilege conferred by French nationality