The woman who owns the condo unit above mine was a kid in France during the war.She came to this country after having married an American serviceman in the 1950s. She’s told me many stories...amazing stories...about her early years and one thing she’s made clear is that antisemitism wasn’t just a German thing during the 1940s. It was found in France as well.
The saying in France before the war was “Better Hitler than Blum”, referring to Leon Blum the then French Socialist Prime Minister, who was also Jewish.