Well, I doubt the Vichy government and its officials deserve much credit. Rather, that credit should go to the many thousands of ordinary French citizens who at great peril to themselves, their families and their acquaintances, worked to keep their fellow Jewish citizens out of harm's way. That's why there are over 3,000 names of French citizens listed at the Memorial de la Shoah on the Wall of the Righteous. And, FWIW, there were approximately 200,000 Jews living in Paris pre-war. Over a third-- 38% -- were killed in the Holocaust.