I recently began to read Tony Judt's book "Postwar" and at the first section of the book called "The Legacy of War", page 39, the author writes this about the German administrative personnel is occupied western Europe:

"In liberated western Europe there was little German-owned property to redistribute and the war had not been experienced as quite the cataclysm that it was further east. But there, too, the legitimacy of constituted authorities was cast into question. The local administrations in France, Norway and the Benelux countries had not covered themselves in glory. On the contrary, they had on the whole performed with alacrity the occupiers’ bidding. In 1941 the Germans were able to run occupied Norway with just 806 administrative personnel. The Nazis administered France with just 1,500 of their own people. So confident were they of the reliability of the French police and militias that they assigned (in addition to their administrative staff) a mere 6,000 German civil and military police to ensure the compliance of a nation of 35 million. The same was true in the Netherlands. In postwar testimony the head of German security in Amsterdam averred that ‘the main support of the German forces in the police sector and beyond was the Dutch police. Without it, not 10 percent of the German occupation tasks would have been fulfilled.’"

This, of course, does not show the whole situation of the resistance in occupied western Europe.

Also while the book's author Tony Judt is widely recognized as one of the best historians about post war situation, I would like to hear opinions about this paragraph.