Im-Fout concentration camp

The Im Fout labor camp was a forced labor camp established by 1941 by Vichy France near the construction site of the Im Fout Dam on the Oum Er-Rbia River in Morocco, at the time a French protectorate. Most of Im Fout's prisoners were political prisoners, demobilized soldiers, former military volunteers, and "undesirables" classified as "foreign workers" (Groupement de travailleurs étrangers (GTE)) by the Department of Industrial Production (Direction de la Production Industrielle) in Rabat. The Im Fout cohort was designated as GTE No. 9. Im Fout was the main center for demobilized soldiers and former war volunteers designated as "foreign workers" in Axis-occupied North Africa. The camp's structures included low-ceilinged cement barracks with cement floors, which were stocked with bedbug-infested wooden beds with straw mattresses and one blanket for each prisoner—approximately 100 men per barrack. The camp also had a library, containing books and games that the prisoners shared with the laborers. There were no places of worship accessible to prisoners. The camp's population was recorded at 264 by ICRC physician Edouard Wyss-Dunant in July 1942, but had dropped to 23 men, all soon to be released, by April 1943. 59 of the camp's prisoners were Polish nationals. While the camp's assembly hall was under construction, the prisoners ate at the canteen for the dam construction workers.

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