Ain Guenfounda (also Ain Guenfouda; today: Guenfouda) was an internment camp in Morocco, located 522 kilo-meters (almost 325 miles) east of Casablanca, more than 25 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Oujda, and 22 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Djerrada. It was one of the Vichy forced labor camps established in North Africa after the Franco-German Armistice in June 1940. Officially the camp was classified as housing a group of civilian foreign workers (Groupe des Travailleurs Civils Étrangers, GTCE).1 The mines at nearby Djerrada were labeled as being “at Guenfounda.”2 In June 1940, the French Foreign Legion (Légion Étrangère, LE) was disbanded, and its “volunteers engaged for the duration of the war” (Engagés volontaires à la Légion étrangère pour la durée de la guerre, EVDG) were dispatched to camps in North Africa, including Ain Guenfounda. On March 22, 1941, Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain authorized the construction of the Trans-Saharan Railroad, also known as the Mediterrane...