Guantanamo detainees occupy the same extralegal status as Nazi camp Jews.

Evidence

Neither prisoners nor persons accused, but simply ‘detainees’ they [the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay] are the object of a pure de facto rule, of a detention that is indefinite not only in the temporal sense but in its very nature as well, since it is entirely removed from the law and from judicial oversight. The only thing to which it could possibly be compared is the legal situation of the Jews in the Nazi Lager [camps], who, along with their citizenship, had lost every legal identity, but at least retained their identity as Jews. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 48

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the state-of-exception literature and to the camp-as-structure readings in Agamben and Mbembe.
• SEED: An essay on how the retention of a legal category (identity as Jews) versus its complete erasure (detainee) marks the true limit of state power.