sorry but i hate this and want to argue. French just got owned. Brits too. i think its very hard to argue far right nationalists would consent to the dismemberment & occupation of their country to show it to a basically irrelevant left.
they got their wishlist of antileft repression with wartime decrees that imprisoned and banned the communist party
You seem to know very little about the period. Many far right nationalists did consent to these things when they helped the nazis do them
as collaborators. The left was anything but irrelevant, they led a government in 36, supported by the communists. Which alienated many right wingers who ended up side with the nazis.
the popular front failed & was dissolved, with about every single achievement suspended through the mobilization & wartime acts. the the French left in 1940 were either in jail or in marginalized collaboration with the centre (if you can even call people like Daladier meaningfully leftwing).
collaboration after capitulation doesn't mean there had been before or that that course of action was preferred by the collaborators. a counterexample to Petain would be Darlan who clearly was just an opportunist. and Petain himself lost the pride of his career in the reconquest of Alsace.
i should think the first priority for a french rightist in those days would be to win, keep their national pride & territory, and possibly use the prestige or warpowers afterward to sideline the left. like DeGaulle
sorry but i hate this and want to argue. French just got owned. Brits too. i think its very hard to argue far right nationalists would consent to the dismemberment & occupation of their country to show it to a basically irrelevant left.
they got their wishlist of antileft repression with wartime decrees that imprisoned and banned the communist party
You seem to know very little about the period. Many far right nationalists did consent to these things when they helped the nazis do them as collaborators. The left was anything but irrelevant, they led a government in 36, supported by the communists. Which alienated many right wingers who ended up side with the nazis.
the popular front failed & was dissolved, with about every single achievement suspended through the mobilization & wartime acts. the the French left in 1940 were either in jail or in marginalized collaboration with the centre (if you can even call people like Daladier meaningfully leftwing).
collaboration after capitulation doesn't mean there had been before or that that course of action was preferred by the collaborators. a counterexample to Petain would be Darlan who clearly was just an opportunist. and Petain himself lost the pride of his career in the reconquest of Alsace.
i should think the first priority for a french rightist in those days would be to win, keep their national pride & territory, and possibly use the prestige or warpowers afterward to sideline the left. like DeGaulle