Petain and Suhard in 1944
 

  Cardinal Suhard, the Archibishop of Paris during the German occupation, was promoted to that position on 8 May 1940, just before the fall of France. Along with many of his colleagues, he supported the Vichy regime and appeared with Petain in Public well into 1944.  So despised was he to the resistance that when Paris was liberated, General De Gaule refused to enter Notre Dame Cathedral until Suhard was gone. Nevertheless, Suhard did protest against the deportation of the Jews.  He also protested against the deportation of young workers to Germany for forced labor. He also defended working-class Catholic action members against deportation to German factories and when this failed, he organized a program of clandestine chaplains to go to Germany with these youth.