So images taken on a sunny day by a photographer working for a German propaganda publication is used as the barometer on how the French, all the French, in the whole of France, really had it during the occupation......? Excuse me if I find Mr. Hardmans's assertions to be naive and shallow to the point of ridiculous and misleading. Mr. Hardman has only proven to me that even after 65+ years after the war, he is gullible to the point of falling for German propaganda sources.

Yes, Mr Hardman, the French had it "so well" during the occupation. Then again, you work for the Daily Mail, so one shouldn't be surprised. Perhaps Mr. Hardman should write an article about how the Mail was sympathetic to Mosley's British Union of Fascists.

Taken from wiki:

Support for Nazism and Fascism
In early 1934, Rothermere and the Mail were sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Rothermere wrote an article, "Hurrah for the Blackshirts", in January 1934, in which he praised Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine"[6], though after the violence of the 1934 Olympia meeting involving the BUF, the Mail withdrew its support for Mosley.
Rothermere was a friend and supporter of both Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, which influenced the Mail's political stance towards them up to 1939. During this period, it was the only British newspaper consistently to support the German Nazi Party.[7][8] Rothermere visited and corresponded with Hitler on many occasions. On 1 October 1938, Rothermere sent Hitler a telegram in support of Germany's invasion of the Sudetenland, and expressing the hope that 'Adolf the Great' would become a popular figure in Britain.
In 1937, the Mail's chief war correspondent, George Ward Price, to whom Mussolini once personally wrote in support of him and the newspaper, published a book, I Know These Dictators, in defence of Hitler and Mussolini.
Rothermere and the Mail supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, particularly during the events leading up to the Munich Agreement. However, after the Nazi invasion of Prague in 1939, the Mail changed position and urged Chamberlain to prepare for war, not least, perhaps, because on account of its stance it had been threatened with closure by the British Government.[citation needed]
The paper continues to be referred to on occasion by critics as the Daily Heil, referring to its conservative stance and its past support for Mosley.[9]