Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga 5 ga Mayu 1942 zuwa 28 ga Nuwamba 1944, Oberg ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban SS da Shugaban 'Yan Sanda (, HSSPF) "Frankreich" (Faransa) a kan dukkan rundunonin' yan sandan Jamus a Faransa, gami da SD da Gestapo. Shi ne babban iko a Faransa don gudanar da manufofin anti-Yahudawa da yaƙi da Resistance na Faransa. A cikin 1942, jim kaɗan bayan isowarsa, ya ba da umarnin ba da izinin Yahudawa don ganewa, ya goyi bayan tattara Yahudawa 13,152 a cikin Paris Vélodrome d'Hiver (Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
), kuma ya ba da umarnin kisan gilla na masu garkuwa a matsayin azaba ga ayyukan juriya na Faransa. A wannan lokacin an hukunta shi a matsayin "Mai Kashe Paris". A kan umarnin Heydrich, Oberg ya kori Yahudawa sama da 40,000 daga kasar tare da taimakon rundunar 'yan sanda ta Vichy Faransa karkashin jagorancin René Bousquet.