Some French did willingly and enthusiastically collaborate with the Germans.
Others, just by trying to go on with their lives and keep things together became passive collaborators.
If what happened to France happened to us, Americans wouldn't behave so differently.
There was a great movie about a fictional Nazi occupation of England called “It Happened Here”, that speculated how such an occupation would have gone. The central character was an apolitical nurse who wound up working in a hospital where they carried out Euthanasia. But it really demonstrated how most people would just adapt and not make waves.
No. You’re flat out wrong. And I’ll leave it to a Frenchman who lived a century before WWII to explain why:
Alexis De Toqueville: Democracy in America
“Toqueville on Christianity and American Democracy”
https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/tocqueville-christianity-and-american-democracy