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The ultra collaboration and anti-semitismThe extremists’ collaboration with the German occupants and commitment to their ideology was and continues to be primarily attributable to two theories. The first is that of intellectuals – Céline, Brasillach, not to mention Cousteau and Rebatet – who spread their hatred in their journalistic columns and works. The second is that of those committed men who worked for the Germans – gangsters and petty criminals such as Boney and Laffont in Paris, Spirito and Carbone in Marseilles, and people who lacked any real ideology, such as the fictional character of Lacombe Lucien, who was based on real historical figures.Far removed from these representations, the political parties and movements of the ultra-collaboration counted tens of thousands of committed activists who engaged in intense activity in accordance with their beliefs and ideology which gave anti-Semitism a major role.During the 5 year existence of both the Vichy regime and the German occupation, anti-Semitic militarism occupied a central role in the extremist collaboration and actions of its militants.