Most were "in between" during the war, few took an active role in the resistance it wasn't exactly a full time job for everybody, for many it was casual like you saw something you say nothing and that's about it. Quite a few hid jewish families fleeing nazis, and there weren't much active collaborators, I mean people that were not forced to collaborate but did and big time, civilians typically, there were but for most it was casual also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance
>The Resistance's men and women came from many different parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including clergy), Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. The number of French people participating in the organized resistance is estimated at from one to three percent of the total population.[4] There were around 100,000 fighters in June 1944. By October 1944, the FFI had grown to 400,000 members.[9] Although the amalgamation of the FFI was sometimes fraught with political difficulties, it was ultimately successful, and allowed France to rebuild the fourth-largest army in the European theatre (1.2 million men) by VE Day in May 1945.[10]
Most collaborators were in for personal profit, not necessarily for ideological reasons, the charlemagne division is an entire different story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_Charlemagne it was very ideologically motivated, they weren't exactly in just to turn a profit, obviously, 7,340 men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milice#Membership
>The Milice Française (French Militia), generally called la Milice (literally the militia; French pronunciation: [milis]), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, although its chief of operations and de facto leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. It participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping to round up Jews and résistants in France for deportation. It was the successor to Darnand's Service d'ordre légionnaire (SOL) militia. The Milice was the Vichy regime's most extreme manifestation of fascism. Ultimately, Darnand envisaged the Milice as a fascist single party political movement for the French state.[1] Black-and-white photo of men in uniform with guns The Milice frequently used torture to extract information or confessions from those whom they interrogated. The French Resistance considered the Milice more dangerous than the Gestapo and SS because they were native Frenchmen who understood local dialects fluently, had extensive knowledge of the towns and countryside, and knew local people and informants.[2][3] Official figures are difficult to obtain, but several historians including Julian T. Jackson estimate that the Milice's membership reached 25,000–30,000 by 1944.
And yes at the end of the war, everybody was in the resistance, casual collaborators included lol, since day1 of course! Undercover and shhheeeeeeeeeiiitttt...
I would even go as far as saying that, the most vocal post war leftist calling everybody a collaborator were more often than not big time casual collaborators themselves, they just never took a big role and didn't get caught post war... And as a way to shield themselves from accusations they became "public inquisitors"...
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