If you get a chance watch the French TV series ‘A French Village’. Yes its on PBS. Still well worth your time to understand a difficult period in France’s history.
The Miliciens (appear in Season 5-6) are portrayed pretty accurately as murderous louts and anti-semites.
I haven’t seen it on PBS yet, though it has been on the subchannel station MHZ Network, and I believe on Netflix.
Well worth watching...it was some of the best television I’ve seen in years. And for fans of the movie “Downfall”, the Milice troops that went east with the retreating Germans became the core of the SS Division “Charlemagne”, which was among the last forces to surrender in Berlin.