Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia were all French colonies when World War II broke out, and thus came under Vichy rule; Libya was an Italian colony even before the war. Some prisoners from [Algeria and Tunisia] were sent to concentration camps—but not death camps—in Europe; most of them survived. Local Italian fascists attacked Jews in Tripoli and Benghazi on several occasions in the early and mid-1930s, but . German anti-Semitic propaganda had no real effect on the local Muslims. Indeed, many Muslims took Jews into their homes to protect them from the colonial administration during this period.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 01, 2019 04:06 UTC