Description

This report describes the “most unlikely words” reported by native workers returning from the metropole, including the order given to Paris by the German authorities to gather all the Jews. The French authorities grouped together the Jews but also all the North African Muslim natives. The report describes a Kabyle’s protest to a German officer about this internment, and the officer’s response is “the only reason for their internment was their Jewish origin”. The French authorities therefore released the interned Muslims. Another anecdote reports that the bakers’ refusal to sell bread to Algerian workers in Marseille, one of the workers informed the German authorities in Paris, who ordered the French authorities to provide bread to the native Muslims. The economic situation is good.

Commune mixte in French colonial period is a neighborhood managed by civil servants French, Arab (indigenous) and Jews.

The document can be consulted at the documentation center, Institut Ben-Zvi. Appointment requiered.